sixmilebridge - Stephens, M. G.

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Résumé :
M. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) is author of over 30 books, including such classic works of fiction-and long out of print-as Season at Coole and The Brooklyn Book of the Dead, both of which novels have had a lot of critical response in book chapters on Stephens' work. Along with Kid Coole those novels comprise The Coole Trilogy. In the last few years, he has published the novels King Ezra (2022), about the poet Ezra Pound, and the third novel in The Coole Trilogy, Kid Coole (2022), a boxing novel about the underbelly of multicultural America. In 2025, Spuyten Duyvil is publishing three new books by M. G. Stephens: his memoir about the Poetry Project's early days, When Poetry Was the World...

Biographie:
M. G. 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. He published his first book, the novel Season at Coole with E. P. Dutton over fifty years ago, and continues to write and publish regularly. He graduated from City College of New York and Yale University, and later in life, living in England, he wrote a Ph.D., at the University of Essex, on the early years of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's in the Bouwerie. When Poetry Was the World, his memoir, is based on that doctoral research. Currently he lives north of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois.

Sommaire:
M. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and further out on Long Island, into a family of sixteen children. His father came from Ireland and his mother was from an old New England family whose ancestors included a North African indentured servant to the Wheelock family, the founders of Dartmouth College. His mother grew up in a 27-room Brooklyn mansion on Madison near Stuyvesant, right where Spike Lee shot Do the Right Thing, which was also a few blocks from where Stephens lived as a child. He has been around boxing all his life. He also worked various jobs, including a stint in the Merchant Marine, greens-keeping, being a caddy, Christmas tree salesman on the Lower East Side, gas-pump jockey, dishwasher, East Asia correspondent, bartender, and of course journeyman boxer and sparring partner. He lived for many years (15) in London, but now resides just north of Chicago, and has been exiled from New York for over twenty-five years. Kid Coole is the third novel about the Coole family, the other two being The Brooklyn Book of the Dead and Season at Coole, whose fiftieth anniversary of its publication by E. P. Dutton is in 2022. These novels comprise The Coole Trilogy. Besides Kid Coole, Spuyten Duyvil has just published Stephens' novel, King Ezra, about Ezra Pound....