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 twenty years ago to biographical writing and fiction. He teaches creative writing in the Osher Life Long Learning Institute program of the University of South Carolina Beaufort in addition to giving special lectures on Oedipus and 5th-century Athens at the local community college. He wrote This I Need To Know, The Descent of the Western Literary Tradition, a textbook to accompany his lectures.

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, The Hangman, the second book from the casebook of Amy Elizabeth Fletcher. Most recently Madimi and The Monks of Arden, both set in late medieval England, have appeared. 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.