Stephen amidon biography
Stephen amidon biography
Stephen Amidon (born 1969), American writer.
Stephen Amidon
American author and critic
Stephen Amidon (born ) is an American author and critic.
Life and career
Amidon was born in Chicago.[1] He grew up on the East Coast of the United States of America, including a spell in Columbia, Maryland, which served as the inspiration for his fourth novel The New City.[2][3] Amidon attended Wake Forest University as a Guy T.
Carswell Scholar, majoring in philosophy.[4] He moved to London, UK, in , where he was given his first job as a critic by Auberon Waugh, who invited him to review a novel for The Literary Review.[5] In he returned to the US.[6]
His literary criticism and essays have appeared in many publications in North America and the UK [7] and he has also worked as a film critic for the Financial Times and the Sunday Times.[8] In November, , Amidon was on the jury of the 31st Torino Film Festival.[9] Amidon has written tw