Award Winning
Author
Steven Barnes defines career
success being able to say, "I can't believe they are paying me to do
this."
New York Times Best Selling Author, Novelist,
Screenwriter, Lecturer, Creative Consultant, and Human
Performance Expert, Seven Barnes,
went from a job guiding
tours for CBS Television Studios in Hollywood, California, to become
the most celebrated black science fiction writer of his
generation. A New York Times Best Selling Author, Steven Barnes has
written more than 20 novels, and dozens of television screen plays for
shows like The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Andromeda, Baywatch, and
Stargate SG-1. Barnes' screen play
for The Outer Limits, A Stitch In
Time, helped earn an Emmy Award for Amanda Plummer as best
dramatic actress, and for The Outer Limits Television series.
for The Outer Limits, A Stitch In
Time, helped earn an Emmy Award for Amanda Plummer as best
dramatic actress, and for The Outer Limits Television series. Early in Barnes' career
established science fiction writer Larry Niven was so inspired by Barnes's
raw talent and imagination that he took Barnes under his wing. Soon
they were a writing team: working together to create the ground breaking
work Dream Park, and other novels.
Barnes persuit of his
early passion for writing has led to achievement of many of his greatest
dreams. Steven Barnes is author of the best selling Star Wars book,
The Cestus Deception, for George Lucas and Lucas Film. He
has written Batman comic, worked as a creative consultant on the animation
feature film the Secret of NIMH, written over 20 science fiction novels,
written more than a dozen television episodes, written Saturday morning
cartoon episodes for The Real Ghost Busters, and his curent projects include working with his wife, who is also an
award-winning best-selling author, Tananareve
Due, turning two of her books into major motion pictures.
Their screenplay based on Due's Novel, The Good House, was
purchased by Fox Searchlight Studios. When the couple created their
first novel together, Casanegra, in collaboration with actor
Blair Underwood, Publisher's Weekly called Casanegra, "seamlessly
entertaining." Barnes' next 4 books are already
in process.
A gifted lecturer and
teacher, Barnes' teaching venues include, the Smithsonian
Institution, the Maui Writers Workshop, UCLA, Mensa, Pasadena's Jet
Propulsion Lab, USC, and others. Barnes Hollywood friends, and
business associates include Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker, George
Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Wesley Snipes, Pamela Anderson, and the list goes
on.
Barnes is an
science-fiction Novelist, television and motion picture screen writer,
martial arts and yoga instructor, and a teaher and lecturer of writing,
story, and fitness. Couple this with Steven
Barnes' unparalleled willingness to share and teach, and his constant
drive improve his own life and that of his friends, and you just begin to
scratch the surface of one of the most interesting people I have ever met,
a man I am privileged to call one of my closest friends, Steven
Barnes.
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