Stephen Koch is the author of two nov­els and many books of non­fic­tion on sub­jects rang­ing from Andy Warhol to World War II. After serv­ing as chair­man of the Cre­ative Writ­ing Divi­sion in the School of the Arts at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty he wrote a clas­sic text on writ­ing, The Mod­ern Library Writ­ers’ Work­shop. The direc­tor of the Peter Hujar Archive he lives with his wife in New York and has one daughter.