Stephen McCauley

Stephen McCauley

Stephen McCauley (b. June 26, 1955) is an American author. He has written five novels to date including most recently "Alternatives To Sex". His most famous novel is "The Object of My Affection", which was made into a movie starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd.He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Biography

He was raised outside of Boston and went to public schools for his education. Later, as an undergraduate, he attended the University of Vermont and then spent a year in France at the University of Nice.Stephen worked a series of unrelated jobs including teaching yoga, working at a hotel, a kindergarten, and manning an ice cream stand. He worked as a travel agent for many years before moving to Brooklyn in the 1980s. There he attended adult learning centers to take some writing classes before enrolling in Columbia University's writing program. The writer Stephen Koch gave him the idea to begin work on his first novel.

His stories, articles and reviews have appeared in "Gay Community News", "Bay Windows", the "Boston Phoenix", the "New York Times Book Review", "Vogue", "House and Garden", "Details", "Vanity Fair", "Harper's", and "Travel and Leisure", among others.

Bibliography

* "Alternatives To Sex" (2006) ISBN 0-7432-2473-6
* "True Enough" (2001) ISBN 0-684-81054-9
* "The Man of the House" (1996) ISBN 0-684-81053-0
* "The Easy Way Out" (1992) ISBN 0-671-70818-X
* "The Object of My Affection" (1987) ISBN 0-671-61840-7
*(essay in) "Boys Like Us:Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories", Patrick Merla (ed.) Avon Books. 1996

External links

*http://www.stephenmccauley.com/


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