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Steve Erickson was born and brought up as an only child in Granada Hills, Los Angeles. His mother runs a small theatre in L.A, his father (died in 1990) was a photographer. When he was a child he stuttered badly; this motif often recurs in his novels.
He wrote his first story when he was 7, and he was accused of plagiarizing it. Because of his stuttering some teachers believed that he couldn’t read at all. When he was 15 he was already sending his stories to publishers, without any results. At 17 he wrote his first novel. He studie ...
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Erickson’s novels revolve around certain concepts, that appear in almost all his works. One of them is slavery, both actual and metaphorical. His fourth novel Arc d’X starts with a story of a love affair between Thomas Jefferson and a slave girl, Sally Hemings. In many other novels the selling, buying, owning, and disowning of women appears; as often, the men are the more profoundly trapped by what they seek or purport to own. Sexual violence is also present in most of his novels. Often it is directed against women, but more than a few women in his novels know how and have the will to use a knif ...
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