Steven A. Katz

Steven Katz (his screen name omits his middle initial) is an American writer and is the writer of the original screenplay Shadow of the Vampire. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 8, 1959 and received a B. A. in English and Art History from Brown University in 1982 and an M. A. in English from Columbia University in 1984. He currently lives in New York City and is an instructor in screenwriting and television at Princeton University.

• 1992-1994 Fallen Angels writer of episodes Since I Don't Have You and Tomorrow I Die .
• 1996 From the Earth to the Moon writer of episode Can We Do This? .
• 2000 Shadow of the Vampire
• 2007 Wind Chill (with Joseph Gangemi).
• 2014-15 The Knick Supervising producer, Co-executive producer, writer of episodes "They Capture the Heat", "The Golden Lotus", "Whiplash" and "Not Well At All".

• "Noir for 90's made from Spice Old Ingredients," The New York Times, July 30, 1993
• "On TV, Neo-Noir That's Cheap Enough for Fun," The New York Times, November, 1995
• "Boyish Eyes on the Moon," The New York Times, April 3, 1998
• "Secrets in the Snow," The New York Times, April 28, 2007

2002 Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction monograph about the New York-born artist Walton Ford

2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenwriter for Shadow of the Vampire.