Stephen L. Carter

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Stephen L. Carter
Lisle Carter Jr
Emily Elizabeth Howze
RelativesEunice Hunton Carter (grandmother)
W. Alphaeus Hunton, Jr., great uncle

Stephen Lisle Carter (born October 26, 1954)[1] is an American legal scholar who serves as the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He writes on legal and social issues.

Early life and education

Carter was born in

Eunice Hunton Carter, was the first black woman to be a district attorney in New York state.[3] His great-grandmother was the suffragist and activist Addie Waites Hunton
.

Carter graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, and his essay "The Best Black" is based in part on his experiences there. At Ithaca High School, he was the editor-in-chief of The Tattler, and pushed hard for student representation on the local school board.[4]

Carter earned his

Yale Law Journal.[6]

Legal career

Following graduation from Yale, Carter served as a law clerk for Judge

Currently, Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1982. At Yale, he teaches courses on contracts, evidence, professional responsibility, ethics in literature, intellectual property, and the law and ethics of war.

Carter has received eight honorary degrees, including

Hamilton College,[10] and the University of Notre Dame.[11] In 1994, he delivered the commencement speech at Stanford University.[12]

Writing career

Carter's non-fiction books have received praise from voices across the political spectrum, from

Crime Writer's Association,[18] and the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the mystery/thriller category.[19]

His second novel, New England White, and third, Palace Council, form a trilogy of sorts with The Emperor of Ocean Park, all being set in the fictional New England town of Elm Harbor, with some characters from each book appearing in the others.

His fourth novel, Jericho's Fall, was published in July 2009.[20][21][22] His book, The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama, was published in 2011. In August 2014, The Globe and Mail tagged Carter's Back Channel as one of "five new crime novels worth a read."[23]

Carter's work is seen frequently on the op-ed pages of major newspapers. In addition to his policy writings and novels, Carter for several years wrote a feature column in Christianity Today magazine, and he has been quoted in the media on religion in public life.[24] He is currently a Bloomberg View columnist at Bloomberg.com.[25][26]

Personal

Carter was raised in Harlem, in Washington, D.C., and in Ithaca, New York.[27] He and his wife, Enola G. Aird, have two children.[28][29] They reside in Connecticut and summer in Martha's Vineyard.[30] They attend St. Luke's Episcopal Church, one of the oldest predominantly black Episcopal churches in the country.[31][32]

Works

Non-fiction

External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Carter on Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, September 29, 1991, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Carter on The Culture of Disbelief, September 27, 1996, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Carter on Civility, August 4, 1998, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Carter on God's Name in Vain, October 15, 2000, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Carter on Invisible, October 15, 2018, C-SPAN

Novels

External videos
video icon Presentation by Carter on The Emperor of Ocean Park, November 23, 2002, C-SPAN
video icon Interview with Carter on The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, September 22, 2012, C-SPAN
  • United States Supreme Court
    collapsed in scandal, and the son's search for the truth behind his father's death.
  • New England White (2007) is a thriller in which the wife of the president of an Ivy League university suspects that her husband is covering up a murder committed 30 years ago by one of his two roommates, who are running against one another for the Presidency of the United States.
  • Palace Council (2008) involves a two-decade conspiracy to gain control of the Oval Office. The story is set in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and the major characters include Eddie Wesley, a Harlem writer; Aurelia, the woman Eddie loves, who becomes a professor at Cornell University; and a number of real-life historical figures, including Richard Nixon and Langston Hughes.
  • Jericho's Fall (2009) recounts the last days of a "Former Everything" (including Secretary of Defense and CIA Director) who is determined to reveal secrets and the struggles that result, all on a Colorado mountaintop and in a small Colorado town.
  • The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (2012) is a legal drama-turned-thriller whose plot revolves around the speculation of what would have happened had Abraham Lincoln survived his assassination and gone on to be impeached for exceeding his constitutional authority during the American Civil War. The protagonist Abigail, a young, female, black law graduate, experiences various misadventures in post-War Washington, D.C. as she assists on the President's legal defense team.
  • The Church Builder (2013). Published under the nom de plume A. L. Shields, this is the first in a planned series of "Christian" novels about a secret war between faith and the enemies of faith.
  • Back Channel (2014) is a
    Aleksandr Fomin
    , head of the KGB's Washington station. Fictional characters from previous works include Jericho Ainsley (Jericho's Fall), Tori Elden (Palace Council), and Kimmer Madison (The Emperor of Ocean Park; New England White) as a toddler.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Carter, Stephen L. 1954–", Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "Stephen L. Carter", AALBC.
  3. ^ Freeman, John (July 15, 2007). "Master Mixer of Elitism, Murder". Hartford Courant. pp. G03, G06. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  4. ^ The Tattler, September 15, 1971.
  5. ^ Owen, David (June 3, 2002). "From Race to Chase". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  6. ^ "Masthead for Vol 88, 1979". Yale Law Journal. Retrieved September 19, 2017. Stephen L. Carter...Notes Editors
  7. ^ Smith, Dinitia (May 22, 2002). "An Academic Ready to Take the Plunge Into Novelistic Success". The New York Times. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  8. ^ "Commencement: Degree citation: Stephen L. Carter". Bates College. May 26, 2003. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  9. ^ "The Colgate Scene: The Speakers and the Honored". Colgate University. July 1998. Retrieved September 18, 2017. Others receiving honorary degrees were Yale law professor and author Stephen Carter (doctor of laws)
  10. ^ "Hamilton College Honorary Degree Recipients". Archived from the original on September 23, 2010.
  11. ^ "Class of 2008 Nomination Form, Honorary Degree Recipients, 1988–2007". University of Notre Dame. May 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2017. 1996, Dr. Stephen L. Carter, New Haven, CT
  12. ^ "News release: Yale law professor Carter to speak at '94 commencement". Stanford University. January 25, 1994. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  13. ^ Schlack, Julie Wittes (July 17, 2008). "Mystery, politics in historical context". Boston Globe. Boston.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017. A negative review of Carter's Palace Council.
  14. ^ Wells, Julia (July 4, 2002). "Blockbuster First Novel Surprises Modest Author Stephen Carter". The Vineyard Gazette. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  15. ^ "Anisfield-Wolf award winners by year". The Cleveland Foundation. 2017. Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  16. ^ "The Emperor of Ocean Park". African American Literature Book Club. Archived from the original on February 26, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
  17. ^ "Stephen L. Carter: Book Fest 07". Library of Congress. 2007. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  18. Crime Writer's Association
    . Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  19. ^ "LA Times Book Award nominees". Archived from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  20. ^ Rubin, Martin (August 2, 2009). "Book review: 'Jericho's Fall,' by Stephen L. Carter". New Haven Register. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  21. ^ Bohjalian, Chris (August 9, 2009). "Tangle of former lovers and a national security threat". Boston Globe. Boston.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  22. ^ Cannon, Margaret (July 11, 2009). "Crime Books". Toronto Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  23. ^ Cannon, Margaret (August 1, 2014). "On the case: Five new crime novels worth a read". Toronto Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  24. ^ Shribman, David (December 11, 1994). "Presidents and prayer". Boston Globe. Boston.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  25. ^ "Contributors: Stephen L. Carter". bloomberg.com. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
  26. ^ Carter, Stephen L. (July 4, 2017). "Commentary: Supreme Court is last leak-proof institution". Chicago Tribune. Bloomberg View. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  27. ^ "About the Author" Archived March 28, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, StephenCarterBooks.com
  28. ^ "Enola Aird, Esq. - Founder and President". CommunityHealing.org. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  29. ^ Aird, Enola (March 25, 2015). "Remembering the people who made a way out of no way". New Haven Register. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  30. ^ Seccombe, Mike (July 19, 2010). "Books, Not Bumper Stickers: Stephen Carter Defends Debate". The Vineyard Gazette. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  31. ^ Bio for 2001 lecture, "Can Religion Tolerate Democracy (and Vice Versa)?", Yale.edu
  32. ^ "Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut (1844- )". BlackPast.org. February 8, 2014. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  33. ^ "1994- Stephen L. Carter". Grawemeyer Awards. July 21, 1994.

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