Author Stephen A. Carter was born in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Upon graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1968, he taught high school history and geography for 21 years before touring Canada as a pen & ink artist. Thereafter he retired to draw, invent, play slo-pitch baseball and write prose and poetry.

Although a proud Canadian, over the past 25 years he has “wintered” in the southern states of America. It was there that his interest in American history grew and flowered.

A stage 4 cancer survivor, he currently lives in New Westminster BC. He, writes, cycles, reads and spends quality time with his fiancé.

After touring the Southern states twice coupled with ten years of research and editing, he has written MATARI, a series of four contiguous novels set in the turbulent American period of 1854-84. Although there are many themes, the primary emphasis of the series deals with African-Americans and their involvement before, during and after the ‘great schism’ or US Civil War.

He has published a high school primer of 100 short poems, pictures and 200 word intros on Americana entitled AMERICANS R US. Unpublished works include two books of poetry and four stage plays. In 1985 he illustrated the world’s best selling fly-fishing book entitled ‘THE GILLY’. Recently he has completed 33 screenplays/film treatments for a TV series and or a movie trilogy for Hawkspurr Productions out of New Zealand. He began his writing career by writing travel articles for a local magazine. His website is OBAAT.CA.