Stephen Cooper (writer)

Stephen Cooper is an American editor and biographer.

He received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He is a Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, and also teaches at University of California at Los Angeles.

In addition to essays and scholarly articles, his short fiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Hot Type, Southwest Review and American Fiction. In addition, he has received the N.E.A. (National Endowment of the Arts) Creative Writing Fellowship in Fiction. Full of Life and The John Fante Reader have been included among the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year.

He lives in Los Angeles.

• Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante Angel City Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-883318-58-1

Editor

• Perspectives on John Huston, G.K. Hall, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8161-1985-1
• John Fante: A Critical Gathering, co-edited with David Fine, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999
• The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959, Black Sparrow Press, 2000, ISBN 9781574231205
• The John Fante Reader (Ecco Press 2003); HarperCollins, 2003, ISBN 978-0-06-095948-7