M G StephensM. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) is author of over 30 books, including two recent novels with Spuyten Duyvil, King Ezra, about the flawed Modernist genius Ezra Pound, and Kid Coole, the third book in The Coole Trilogy, the other books being he Brooklyn Book of the Dead and Season at Coole, the latter which E. P. Dutton published more than fifty years ago. Stephens was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and further out on Long Island, the third of sixteen children to an Irish gypsy father and a multiracial American mother from a family which traced its origins back to a slave owned by the Wheelock family, the founders of Dartmouth College. His play Our Father ran for over five years on Theatre Row (42nd Street), and has been produced several times in London, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He received his degrees after the age of 30 from the City College of New York, Yale University, and much later in life (60 years old), from the University of Essex in Colchester, England. Stephens lived in London for 15 years, mainly working in fringe theatres as a writer, director and actor, moving back to the U.S. just before the Covid-19 pandemic. He has both Irish and U.S. citizenships, and is anxious to travel again after being housebound with the rest of the country during the pandemic. He dreams of taking the night boat from Algeciras to Tangier and settling permanently in Northern Africa. Barring that he would settle for a winterized cottage on Cape Cod or at the end of Long Island. Read More Read Less