Stephen Cooper is an American editor, biographer and writer-producer. He is a Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach,^[1] and has also taught for many years with the Writers' Program of UCLA Extension.^[2] He was born, raised, and lives in Los Angeles.^[3]

Works

• Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante, North Point Press/FSG 2000; Angel City Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-883318-58-1

Editor

• Perspectives on John Huston, G.K. Hall, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8161-1985-1
• John Fante: A Critical Gathering, co-edited with David Fine, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999
• The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959, Black Sparrow Press, 2000, ISBN 9781574231205
• The John Fante Reader (Ecco Press 2003); HarperCollins, 2003, ISBN 978-0-06-095948-7
• John Fante's 'Ask the Dust': A Joining of Voices and Views, co-edited with Clorinda Donato, Fordham University Press, 2020.

Writer-producer

• Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, Netflix Original Documentary, 2018.