Stephen Bly (August 17, 1944 – June 9, 2011) was an American author and novelist.
He wrote more than 100 books and hundreds of articles, poems, and short stories.
His book, The Long Trail Home Broadman & Holman, won the 2002 Christy Award in the category Western novel.
Three other books, Picture Rock Crossway Books, The Outlaw's Twin Sister (Crossway Books), and Last of the Texas Camp (Broadman & Holman), were Christy Award finalists.
Bly's books, primarily Western novel genre in the American West, historical and contemporary, are written from a Christian worldview.
His Paperback Writer was noted in a Publishers Weekly review for its “amusing parody of the proverbial dime-store paperback novel."