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Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser, (1928-08-07)August 7, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, died February 22, 2008(2008-02-22) (aged 79), in Williamsburg, Virginia) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Goya, Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. He is best known for his detective character Chester Drum, whom he created for the 1955 novel The Second Longest Night. Lesser also wrote using the pseudonyms Adam Chase, Andrew Frazer, C.H. Thames, Jason Ridgway, Stephen Wilder, and Ellery Queen.




Biography



Lesser attended the College of William & Mary, earning his degree in philosophy, marrying Leigh Lang soon after graduating. He was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He and his wife divorced in 1962.
He was awarded the French Prix Gutenberg du Livre in 1988 for The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus, and in 1997 he was awarded the Life Achievement Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. He also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America.
In the later part of his life he lived with his second wife Ann in Williamsburg, Virginia.




Selected bibliography


As Milton S. Lesser:

As Stephen Marlowe:

Chester Drum novels (as Stephen Marlowe):

As Adam Chase:

Summer Snow Storm (1956)
Home is Where You Left It (1957)
Quest of the Golden Ape (1959)
As Andrew Frazer:

Find Eileen Hardin - Alive! (1959)
The Fall of Marty Moon (1960)
As Jason Ridgway:

As Ellery Queen

Dead Man's Tale (1961)
As C. H. Thames:

As Darius John Granger:

As Stephen Wilder:

The passionate pitchman (1956)




References






External links


The Mystery*File blog: Bill Pronzini on Stephen Marlowe, 1928-2008.
Milton Lesser at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Works by Stephen Marlowe at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Stephen Marlowe at the Internet Archive
Works by Stephen Marlowe (and other aliases) at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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