Occupation Writer Spouse Joni Berry Role Writer | Language English Name Stephen Maitland-Lewis Alma mater University of Sheffield | |
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Citizenship Dual citizen: United Kingdom & United States Children Toby, Victoria and Benjamin Books Botticelli's Bastard, Emeralds Never Fade, Hero on Three Continents, Ambition | ||
Stephen Maitland Lewis - Botticelli's Bastard
Stephen Maitland-Lewis is British-American writer. Maintland-Lewis was born in England and is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. Maitland-Lewis resides in Beverly Hills.
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Personal
Maitland-Lewis is a trustee of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, which is affiliated with Queens College, New York. He is on the advisory board and a former director of the California Jazz Foundation, and also on the Executive Committee of the International Mystery Writers Festival. He and his wife have a home in the New Orleans French Quarter, and have been regular sponsors of the annual Satchmo SummerFest in New Orleans. He is also a collector of ALS (autographed letters, signed) by prominent international literary figures and nobel prize laureates. He has written for the Cobblestone Press as well as for innumerable United States and English publications. He has made many frequent appearances on American radio and television.
Awards
2011 Written Arts Awards for Best Fiction
2012 Benjamin Franklin Award for Historical Fiction
2013 USA Best Book Awards finalist
2014 International Book Awards
2014 USA Best Book Awards finalist in three separate categories of Mystery, Suspense and Fiction
2014 Louie Award
2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Award for Best Regional Fiction – Europe