Richard Stevenson: Nearly 40 Years With Donald Strachey

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 4 a.m.

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Ep:045 Born 1938 Lock Haven, PA, Richard Stevenson graduated Lock Haven State College, did graduate work in American lit at Penn State.\\xa0 He joined the Peace Corps and fled grad school to teach English in Ethiopia 1962-64---He says it's the best thing he ever did. Worked as Peace Corps program evaluator around the world 1964-67.\\xa0 Ran the anti-poverty program in Pittsfield, MA, 1968-71.\\xa0 Free-lance writer after that.\\xa0 Wrote for magazines and newspapers, including 15 years as an editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, MA.\\xa0 Won New England AP Press Association award for editorials on gay marriage.\\xa0 Wrote a thriller, GRAND SCAM (Dial, 1979) with Peter Stein.\\xa0 Wrote the 16 Strachey books under the name Richard Stevenson, starting with DEATH TRICK in 1981.\\xa0 Four of them filmed by HereTV.\\xa0 He has been reviewing books regularly for The Washington Post for many years and continues to do so.

He has two children, both excellent human beings now in their forties, one a teacher, one a writer and musician.\\xa0 He's been with Joe Wheaton, sculptor and video artist since 1990.\\xa0 Married since the first day it was legal in MA in 2004.

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