Steven Powell
Sub-genre: Biography, noir, Non Fiction, Non fiction Historical Crime
Steven Powell is a leading scholar of American crime fiction and the author of a trilogy of critical works on the life and work of James Ellroy, including James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) which was nominated for the HRF Keating Award for Best Biographical / Critical work. Powell is the editor of the anthologies Conversations with James Ellroy (UPM 2012) and The Big Somewhere: Essays on James Ellroy’s Noir World (Bloomsbury 2018). He also edited the anthology 100 American Crime Writers (2012) for Palgrave Macmillan’s Crime Files Series.