Stepan Chapman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stepan Chapman

American writer

Date of Birth: 27-May-1951

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jan-2014

Profession: novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Stepan Chapman (May 27, 1951 — January 27, 2014) was an American writer of speculative fiction and fabulation.
He is best known for the Philip K.
Dick Award winning novel The Troika.Chapman was born and raised in Chicago and then studied theatre at the University of Michigan.
His first published work was a story to Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1969.
As a rule his work is more fable-like in tone and surreal than is common for that magazine.
He also had several stories in Damon Knight's Orbit (anthology series).
He has primarily been published in small literary magazines since the late 1970s.
A collection of his stories was titled Dossier.