Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter ( born October 26, 1954 in Washington, DC ) is an American lawyer and writer.

Carter comes from the African American upper class, is an avowed Christian and conservative, married and father of two children.

He studied at the elite universities, Stanford and Yale. He then worked as a lawyer, most recently on the Supreme Court Since 1982 Carter has a law professor at Yale. He has published numerous non-fiction books on topics of law, state, church, and racial integration.

After twenty years of work, published in 2002 Carter, who likes to play chess passionately, his debut novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (German checkmate ). In it, he designed experiences from his life as a black person and a lawyer for a thriller about the Garland family lawyers. Law Professor Talcott Garland must find out what his father, a federal judge in the Testament means by arrangements and gets into dangerous shoals, where his Uncle Jack turned out to be a CIA agent and mastermind of organized crime. At the same time Carter creates a figure- rich, enthralling satirical portrait of the Black bourgeoisie, who spends the summer in Martha 's Vineyard, but the Kennedys goes out of the way. The review compares Carter to Thomas Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen, but complains that it is rarely properly snappy.

Patrick Bahner wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: The overdetermination of the detective story is enactment of the historic fatality. Around every corner lurk the demons of America. From this unity of form and motifs of the novel gains its overwhelming force. (28 September 2002)

For movie rights to Warner Brothers paid around one million U.S. dollars. The rights for the successor novel by checkmate, the U.S. publisher auctioned button for 4.2 million dollars

Novels

  • The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), German checkmate, awarded the Anisfield - Wolf Book Award
  • New England White, ( 2007), dt The Black Lady
  • Palace Council, (2008), German Black and White
  • Jericho 's case, (2009), German legacy
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