Ethard Wendel Van Stee

Ethard Wendel Van Stee began studying creative writing thirty years ago. He has served on the editorial boards of several learned journals and has had many years of experience on the podium in university lecture halls. He shifted focus ten years ago to biographical writing and fiction. He teaches creative writing in The Learning Exchange program of the University of South Carolina Beaufort in addition to giving special lectures on Oedipus and 5^th-century Athens at the local community college. Last year he had published This I Need To Know, The Descent of the Western Literary Tradition, a textbook to accompany his lectures. He expects to update this book every two or three years.

Mr. Van Stee’s books include I Didn’t Come From Nowhere, the life of Marie Johnson, daughter of a slave; Moira’s Scythe, a family saga; The Remarkable Life of Frances Emily Steele, a novel; A Woman of No Means, the second Frances Emily novel; The Bloodstone, a novelized collection of linked murder mysteries from the casebook of Frances Emily’s granddaughter Amy Elizabeth Fletcher, and The Hangman, the second book from the casebook of Amy Elizabeth Fletcher (due out late 2005). All books have been published by iUniverse, a POD company he highly recommends. They are available from any of dozens of Internet booksellers or by order from your local bookstore. Google Ethard Van Stee for more than you ever wanted to know.

Mr. Van Stee has been the director of the Beaufort Writers organization for ten years. He is known to everyone as Van.

He may be contacted at evanste@islc.net

His website address is www.ethardvanstee.com