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Stephen Michael Erickson (born April 20, 1950), pen name Steve Erickson, is an American novelist, essayist and critic. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, and is considered an important representative of the Avantpop movement. ==Biography== Steve Erickson was born and raised in Los Angeles. For many years his mother, a former actress, ran a small theatre in L.A; his father, who died in 1990, was a photographer. When he was a child he stuttered badly. Because of his stuttering some teachers believed that he could not read. This motif occasionally has recurred in his novels, such as ''Amnesiascope.'' Erickson studied film at UCLA (BA, 1972), then journalism (M.A. 1973). For a few years he worked as a freelance writer for alternative weekly newspapers. His first novel, ''Days Between Stations,'' was published in 1985. Since 1985 Erickson has published nine novels and two non-fiction books, ''Leap Year'' and ''American Nomad''. Erickson himself appears briefly as a fictional character in Michael Ventura's 1996 novel, ''The Death of Frank Sinatra''. Erickson has written on a variety of topics in periodicals including ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Esquire'' and ''Rolling Stone'' among others. Currently he is a teacher with the Writing Program at the University of California, Riverside and is the editor of the national literary magazine ''Black Clock'' published by the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He has written about film for ''Los Angeles'' magazine since 2001 and twice has been nominated for the National Magazine Award in criticism. Erickson's work has been admired and cited by other authors including Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Jonathan Lethem, Kathy Acker, William Gibson, Susan Straight and Mark Z. Danielewski. In describing his influences, he states: When I think of writers who have had an impact on me, I come up with people that never get named (my reviewers ). Faulkner, Henry Miller, the Brontës, Stendhal, Paul Bowles, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler. I would have to include in that group Márquez, who is one writer that has been cited, and you’ve probably got to include in that group Pynchon, simply because Pynchon is a little like Joyce. His influence is so pervasive these days that you can’t help but be influenced by him.〔Mx Lane, James. ("Steve Erickson Interview" ) ''BOMB Magazine'' Summer, 1987. Retrieved May 17, 2013.〕Erickson's novel ''Tours of the Black Clock'' appears on critic Larry McCaffery's list of the 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction. In a winter 2008 poll by the National Book Critics Circle of 800 novelists and writers, Erickson's ''Zeroville'' was named one of the five favorite novels of the previous year; and in the fall of 2014 the motion picture adaptation of ''Zeroville'' began filming starring James Franco, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver and Megan Fox for release in late 2016. He lives with his family in Topanga Canyon, in Southern California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Erickson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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