Stephen L. Carter

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Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter (born October 26, 1954 in Washington, DC ) is an American lawyer and writer.

Carter comes from the Afro-American upper class, is an avowed Christian and conservative, married and has two children.

He studied at the elite universities of Stanford and Yale . He then worked as a lawyer, most recently at the Supreme Court . Carter has been a law professor at Yale since 1982. He published numerous non-fiction books on topics from law, the state, the church and racial integration.

After twenty years of work published in 2002 Carter, who passionately enjoys playing chess, his debut novel The Emperor of Ocean Park (dt. Checkmate ). In it he turns experiences from his life as a black man and lawyer into a thriller about the Garland family of lawyers. Law professor Talcott Garland has to find out what his father, a federal judge, means in his will by precaution and ends up in dangerous shallows, where his Uncle Jack turns out to be a CIA agent and mastermind of organized crime. At the same time, Carter creates a figure-rich, gripping satirical portrait of the Black bourgeoisie who spends the summer in Martha's Vineyard but avoids the Kennedys. The criticism compares Carter with Thomas Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen , but criticizes that he rarely gets really snappy .

Patrick Bahners writes in the FAZ: The overdetermination of the crime story is a reflection of the historical fate. The demons of America lurk around every corner. The novel gains its overwhelming power from this unity of form and motif. (September 28, 2002)

Warner Brothers paid around one million US dollars for the film rights. The US publisher Knopf bought the rights to the follow-up novel to Schachmatt for $ 4.2 million.

In 1995 Carter was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Novels

  • The Culture of Disbelief , (1991), received the 1994 Grawemeyer Award for Religion
  • The Emperor of Ocean Park , (2002), German checkmate , honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
  • New England White , (2007), German The Black Lady
  • Palace Council , (2008), German black and white
  • Jericho's Fall , (2009), German legacy

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personal data
SURNAME Carter, Stephen L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carter, Stephen Lisle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC