Steve Szilagyi

Critic, journalist, novelist Steve Szilagyi is the author of "Photographing Fairies" (Ballantine, 1992), and co-author, with Bill Mesce, Jr., of "The Advocate" (Bantam, 2000).

Ohio-born Szilagyi (pronounced Sil-AH-jee) graduated with honors from Columbia University, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection "The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant".

A painter and illustrator, Szilagyi has published drawings in "New York Magazine" and other national publications.

"Photographing Fairies", his first novel, was short-listed for the 1993 World Fantasy Award, and was made into the 1996 movie "Photographing Fairies" starring Ben Kingsley, and directed by Nick Willing.

Szilagyi is a Pushcart Prize Outstanding Writer, winner of a Cleveland Emmy Award (1996), and First Place winner for Best Arts Writing, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists awards (2001).