Stephen White

Fast Facts:

• A conversation Stephen White had with Peter Barton, co-author of NOT FADE AWAY: A Short Life Well-Lived, sparked his idea for writing KILL ME.
  
  
• White was a practicing clinical psychologist when he began writing his first novel, PRIVILEGED INFORMATION, in 1989. The novel introduced readers to Dr. Alan Gregory.
  
  
• The Alan Gregory novels are set in Boulder, Colorado. White lived in Boulder on and off for 15 years.
  
  
• White's first New York Times bestseller was HARM'S WAY.
  
  
• One of White's psychologist colleagues was psychologist/author Jonathan Kellerman. When Kellerman and White met, they were "two of only about a dozen psychologists in the country working in pediatric oncology."
  
  
• White was a creative writing major at University of California-Irvine --- for three weeks. He later graduated from University of California-Berkeley in 1972. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1979.
  
  
• Prior to his work as a clinical psychologist and novelist, White worked as a tour guide, cook, waiter and bartender.
  
  
• Stephen White, the suspense novelist, is sometimes rumored to be Stephen White, author of the Barney books and scripts. They are two different authors.
  
  

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