SHANE STEVENS
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BIOGRAPHY
Shane Stevens was born in Hell's Kitchen and grew up in Harlem. He was the author of Go Down Dead, Way Uptown In Another World, Dead City, Rat Pack, By Reason of Insanity, and The Anvil Chorus. Under the pseudonym J.W. Ryder, he wrote the novels Jersey Tomatoes and Hot Tickets featuring a PI named Malone, an ex-seminiarian and former FBI agent living and operating in Jersey City.
A rare photograph of Shane Stevens |
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For some time now, I've been researching Stevens in an attempt to construct a biographical portrait of the forgotten writer.
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BLOG POSTS
- Quick Fire At The Slaughterhouse
- Shane Stevens At The Slaughterhouse
- Jersey Tomatoes In Paperback
- Go Down Dead
- Autographed Copy of Rat Pack
- Quest For Dignity
- Black Review #1
- J.W. Rider
- Zulu Night
- Shane Stevens: The Best Black American Novelist Writing Today
- Shane Stevens and Gil Cates
- The Cool Dead
- My Dark Pages
- Barnaby Conrad
- The Warriors
- Warren Miller's Cool World
- Stevens Update
- Frustration
- Awfulness of Neglect
- Privacy and the Author
- Author Photo
- Ellery Queen
- In The City
- Crime Writer As Political Activist
- The Me Nobody Knows
- Acid Trip in the East Village
- Tending Bar
- The Anvil Chorus
- Personal Lives of Authors
- All Power to All People
- Harlem
- Waiting on the Mailman
- Across 110th Street
- Shane Stevens Saturday