Richard Stevenson is the pseudonym of Richard Lipez, the author of nine books, including the Don Strachey private eye series. The Strachey books are being filmed by here!, the first gay television network. Lipez also co-wrote Grand Scam with Peter Stein, and contributed to Crimes of the Scene: A Mystery Novel Guide for the International Traveler. He is a mystery columnist for The Washington Post and a former editorial writer at The Berkshire Eagle. His reporting, reviews and fiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Progressive, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and many other publications. He grew up and went to college in Pennsylvania and served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia from 1962-64. Lipez lives in Becket, Massachusetts and is married to sculptor Joe Wheaton.
Article about Richard Lipez in The Express .
Dick was a finalist for the 5th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery for Third Man Out, 1992. He was a finalist for the 8th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery for Shock to the System, 1995. He was a finalist for the 11th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Mystery for Strachey's Folly, 1998.