Philip Stevenson was an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He married

Janet Stevenson Janet Marshall Stevenson (February 4, 1913 – June 9, 2009) was an American writer, teacher and social activist from Oregon who wrote in the areas of civil rights, the women's movement, the peace movement, the environment and the arts. She publi ...

Career

Stevenson was "a socially conscious novelist and playwright who was an active participant in

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label=Tiwa language, Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. ...

's art colony. His ''Sure Fire: Episodes in the Life of Billy the Kid,'' written for the 1931 Fiesta, was long remembered. Like many others in the 1930s, Stevenson was attracted to Communism as a solution to the devastating economic problems of that era. After leaving Santa Fe about 1939, he wrote screenplays in Hollywood and continued to write plays and novels, including a trilogy of novels published under the pseudonym, Lars Lawrence. He died in 1965 while touring the Soviet Union." He purchased a home in Santa Fe in 1930. His home in Santa Fe, at 408 Delgado Street, is listed on the

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as a contributing building in the

Camino del Monte Sol Historic District The Camino del Monte Sol Historic District, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included 106 contributing buildings. It includes some works by archit ...

. With

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1965 deaths 20th-century American novelists Year of birth missing American male novelists Place of birth missing American male screenwriters Writers from Santa Fe, New Mexico 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-novelist-stub