:C. J. Stevens

{{Infobox writer

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| name = Clysle Julius (C.J.) Stevens

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| pseudonym = John Stevens Wade[http://www.waterborolibrary.org/MWI_detail.php?authID=390 "CJ Stevens (1927– ); Genre: Short Stories, Non-Fiction, Poetry"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718010613/http://www.waterborolibrary.org/MWI_detail.php?authID=390 |date=July 18, 2011 }}, Waterboro Public Library. Retrieved on July 10, 2010.

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|12|08|mf=yes}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=XcFW1DR31mQC&pg=PA328 The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Poems]. Justin Daniel Belmont (editor). Breakaway Books, 2005, {{ISBN|1-891369-56-3}}.

| birth_place = Smithfield, Maine, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|2021|12|9|1927|12|8}}

| death_place = Surfside Beach, South Carolina

| occupation = Writer

| education = B.S (1953)

| alma_mater = Teachers College of Connecticut (now Central Connecticut State University)

| period = 20th and 21st centuries

| genre = Poetry, short stories, non-fiction, and biography

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| notableworks =

[https://books.google.com/books?id=VoIPGwAACAAJ The Uncertain Cartographer: selected poems of CJ Stevens] (1981)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=L-l9NgAACAAJ The Next Bend in the River: Gold Mining in Maine] (1989)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=47sNAAAAIAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens The Cornish Nightmare (D. H. Lawrence in Cornwall)] (1996)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=IjvSPQAACAAJ The Supernatural Side of Maine] (2002)

| spouse = S.R. (née Taschlisky) Stevens{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=37gSAAAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |author=Stanley McNail |title=The Galley Sail Review |publisher=AMS Press |year=1972 |access-date=April 26, 2016 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192452/https://books.google.com/books?id=37gSAAAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |url-status=live }}

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| website = {{URL|johnwade.com}}

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Clysle Julius (C.J.) Stevens (8 December 1927 – 9 December 2021{{Cite web |title=Obituary: Clysle Julius "C.J." Stevens |date=January 7, 2022 |url=https://www.centralmaine.com/2022/01/07/obituaryclysle-julius-c-j-stevens/ |access-date=2022-03-28}}) was a writer. He published over 30 books (including poetry, short stories, non-fiction, and biography), and was published in hundreds of magazines. The United States Library of Congress contains a special collection of his works.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2wogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2198,764365&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en Robin Hunt Caruso, "Thrill of Gold Mining is in the Hunt, says Author"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192452/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2wogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2198%2C764365&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en |date=March 20, 2022 }}, Sun Journal, June 4, 1990. Retrieved July 9, 2010.

In 1998, the Portland Press Herald described him as "versatile and charismatic".{{cite news |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ME/lib00081,0EAE9C2E8CC2B741.html |title=C. J. Stevens' 'Buried Treasures'; Mines Fertile Fields in Maine |newspaper=Portland Press Herald |date=February 15, 1998 |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-date=December 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207115402/http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ME/lib00081,0EAE9C2E8CC2B741.html |url-status=live }} Stevens also translated others' works into English from other languages, including Dutch and Flemish.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fk1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22cj+stevens%22 |title=Annotated books received |publisher=American Literary Translators Association, University of Texas at Dallas |year=1995 |access-date=April 26, 2016 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192452/https://books.google.com/books?id=fk1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22cj+stevens%22 |url-status=live }}

Biography

=Early life=

Stevens was born in Smithfield, Maine, the son of Earl Wade and Leonora May (Witham) Stevens. He had his first poem published at age 13 in the Waterville Morning Sentinel, a Maine newspaper.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNllAAAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |title=Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets |author=Curt Johnson |publisher=December Press |year=1988 |isbn=0-913204-21-8 |access-date=May 29, 2008 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192453/https://books.google.com/books?id=lNllAAAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |url-status=live }}

As a young man he enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1946 for the duration of the war, plus six months.{{cite web |url=http://www.mainegenealogy.net/individual_enlistment_record.asp?id=35762 |title=Enlistment Record of Clysle J. Stevens |publisher=Maine Genealogy |date= |access-date=July 10, 2010 |archive-date=March 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319031525/http://www.mainegenealogy.net/individual_enlistment_record.asp?id=35762 |url-status=live }} Afterward, he earned a B.S. in 1953 from Teachers College of Connecticut (now known as Central Connecticut State University).

=Writing career=

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The United States Library of Congress contains a special collection of Stevens' works. He published over 30 books, including poetry, short stories, non-fiction, and biography. He said he submitted his poems "haphazardly" over the years to publishers, being a contributor to The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Literary Review, Modern Age, The Post-Crescent, and other publications.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjqFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |title=A Gift that Cannot be Refused: the Writing and Publishing of Contemporary American Poetry |author=Mary Biggs |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-313-26673-7 |access-date=April 1, 2008 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192453/https://books.google.com/books?id=qjqFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1wJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |title=Discourse: a Review of the Liberal Arts |publisher=Concordia College |year=1967 |access-date=April 26, 2016 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192454/https://books.google.com/books?id=h1wJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klRbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22C.+J.+Stevens%22+%22prairie+schooner%22 |title=Beginnings and other poems |author=C. J. Stevens |publisher=J. Wade |year=1989 |isbn=0-9623934-3-6 |access-date=April 26, 2016 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192455/https://books.google.com/books?id=klRbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22C.+J.+Stevens%22+%22prairie+schooner%22 |url-status=live }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Thra2iTVB4sC&q=%22C.+J.+Stevens%22+%22prairie+schooner%22|title=Selected poems|author=C. J. Stevens|publisher=J. Wade|year=1995|isbn=1-882425-04-9|access-date=April 26, 2016|archive-date=March 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192454/https://books.google.com/books?id=Thra2iTVB4sC&q=%22C.+J.+Stevens%22+%22prairie+schooner%22|url-status=live}} By 1990, his poems and stories had also been published in 400 magazines, and more than 50 anthologies and texts.

==Poetry==

Stevens wrote nearly 20 books of poetry. His first book of published poetry, and his only book published under the name "Clysle Stevens", was [https://books.google.com/books?id=okqGGQAACAAJ Loose Stones: First Poems], published by Hitchcock Press in 1954. He published his next 13 books of poetry under the pen name "John Stevens Wade".

These were

[https://books.google.com/books?id=zAQwOAAACAAJ Climbs of Uncertainty] (New Athenaeum Press, 1961),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=r66CMwAACAAJ Northeast] (Hammond Press, 1963),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gq4QAQAAIAAJ&pg=PT6 Two from Where it Snows], with John Judson (Northeast Chapbook Series, 1964),
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724215717/http://www.abaa.org/books/166214752.html Drowning in The Dark] (The Group, 1965),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=rWkUGwAACAAJ Small World] (The Group, 1965),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=7UmxAAAAIAAJ Gallery: Drawings by Tom Ricciardi] (Poet & Printer, 1969),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=sRFQHAAACAAJ The Backhouse] (Funch Press, 1971),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=1bFrQgAACAAJ The Cats in the Colosseum] (Crossing Press, 1972, {{ISBN|0-912278-23-4}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=JddpQgAACAAJ Well Water and Daisies] (Northeast/Juniper Books, 1974, {{ISBN|1-55780-012-X}}),{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30GBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22|title=Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature|author=Wolfgang Mieder|publisher=University Press of New England|year=1987|isbn=0-87451-387-1|access-date=April 26, 2016|archive-date=March 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192455/https://books.google.com/books?id=30GBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22|url-status=live}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=la_yPAAACAAJ Each to His Own Ground] (Juniper Press, 1976, {{ISBN|1-55780-053-7}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=rcuTGQAACAAJ Some of My Best Friends Are Trees] (Sparrow Press, 1978)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=aPvlNwAACAAJ Homecoming] (Icarus Press, 1979), and
[https://books.google.com/books?id=snI6AAAACAAJ&q=intitle:up+intitle:north+inauthor:Stevens Up North] (Juniper Press, 1980, {{ISBN|1-55780-061-8}})

He then began publishing under the name "C.J. Stevens", and produced

[https://books.google.com/books?id=VoIPGwAACAAJ The Uncertain Cartographer: selected poems of CJ Stevens] (Oracle Press, 1981),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=OFcFAQAACAAJ Borderland Traveller: Poems], (Oracle Press, 1985, {{ISBN|0-88127-038-5}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=klRbAAAAMAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens Beginnings and Other Poems] (J. Wade, 1989, {{ISBN|0-9623934-3-6}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=U1RbAAAAMAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens Circling at the Chain's Length] (J. Wade, 1991, {{ISBN|0-9623934-4-4}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=5e4eAAAAMAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens Hang-Ups: poems] (J. Wade, 1993, {{ISBN|1-882425-01-4}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Thra2iTVB4sC&q=C.+J.+Stevens Selected Poems] (J. Wade, 1995, {{ISBN|1-882425-04-9}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=S6czOAAACAAJ Shepherd without Sheep] (John Wade, 2001, {{ISBN|1-882425-15-4}}), and
[https://books.google.com/books?id=5F7XcezAdmAC Collected Poems] (John Wade, 2002, {{ISBN|1-882425-19-7}}).

His poetry also appeared in the works of other people. For example, his poetry appeared, under the name John Stevens Wade, in

[https://books.google.com/books?id=sBjlPwAACAAJ 28 Poems] (Sumac Press, 1966),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=rl2Z0klld58C&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 Flowering after Frost: the anthology of contemporary New England poetry] (Michael McMahon (editor), Branden Books, 1975, {{ISBN|0-8283-1547-7}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=i0sRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 Talking animals] (Charley Davey (editor), Juniper Press, 1978),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=zTJlAAAAMAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 So many heads, so many wits] (Janet Sobieski, Wolfgang Mieder (editors), Dept. of German and Russian, University of Vermont, 2005, {{ISBN|0-9770731-0-6}}).

His poetry also appeared under "C. J. Stevens" in

[https://books.google.com/books?id=XcFW1DR31mQC&q=%22C.+J.+Stevens%22+%22smithfield%22 The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Poems] (Justin Daniel Belmont (editor), Breakaway Books, 2005, {{ISBN|1-891369-56-3}}).

==Short stories==

Stevens wrote two collections of short stories, both under the name C. J. Stevens. They are [https://books.google.com/books?id=CyRCeg0pymsC&q=C.+J.+Stevens The Folks from Greeley's Mill and other Maine Stories] ( J. Wade, 1992, {{ISBN|0-9623934-8-7}}), and [https://books.google.com/books?id=mScZfY9LaFAC&q=C.+J.+Stevens Confessions: New and Selected Stories] (John Wade, 1998, {{ISBN|1-882425-10-3}}).

==Non-fiction==

Stevens and his wife began prospecting in about 1970, and found gold in more than 30 rivers. When his book The Next Bend in the River: Gold Mining in Maine (John Wade, 1989, {{ISBN|0-9623934-0-1}}) about discovering gold in Maine was published, many readers were amazed to learn that gold nuggets can be found by panning certain rivers.{{cite news |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ME/lib00081,0EAE99E16F4185BC.html |title=C.J. Stevens' New Book on Nearly Two Centuries of Maine Mining a Real Gem |work=Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel |date=September 25, 1994 |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192458/https://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ME&p_theme=me&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAE99E16F4185BC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bangor/access/18282058.html?dids=18282058:18282058&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+02%2C+1995&author=Brenda+Seekins+Of+the+NEWS+Staff&pub=Bangor+Daily+News&desc=Nugget+of+truth+in+%27them+thar+Maine+hills%27+Persistence+can+pay+off+when+panning+for+golf+in+the+Swift+River+valley&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131140932/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bangor/access/18282058.html?dids=18282058:18282058&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+02,+1995&author=Brenda+Seekins+Of+the+NEWS+Staff&pub=Bangor+Daily+News&desc=Nugget+of+truth+in+'them+thar+Maine+hills'+Persistence+can+pay+off+when+panning+for+golf+in+the+Swift+River+valley&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|author=Brenda Seekins |title=Nugget of truth in 'them thar Maine hills'; Persistence can pay off when panning for golf in the Swift River valley |work=Bangor Daily News |date=September 2, 1995 |access-date=July 9, 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62645589.html?refid=gnews_1108 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125113233/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62645589.html?refid=gnews_1108 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 25, 2013 |author= Jim Buchta|title=Farmington, Maine; Bustling retreat nestled in forest |work=Star Tribune|location=Minneapolis, MN |date=December 22, 1996 |access-date=July 9, 2010}}[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UTkpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F2UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1503,5282649&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en "TV Show to Focus on Hedgehog Hill"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192557/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UTkpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F2UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1503%2C5282649&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en |date=March 20, 2022 }}, Sun Journal, October 27, 1989. Retrieved July 10, 2010.

He also wrote the related book, Memoirs of a Maine Gold Hunter (John Wade, 2005, {{ISBN|1-882425-22-7}}), about panning for gold and searching for treasure.{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/of-treasure-trash/36070/ |author=Gary Shapiro |title=Of Treasure & Trash |work=The New York Sun |date=July 14, 2006 |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607174643/http://www.nysun.com/arts/of-treasure-trash/36070/ |url-status=live }}

He wrote additional non-fiction including:

Maine Mining Adventures (Wade, 1994, {{ISBN|1-882425-03-0}}),
The Buried Treasures of Maine (Wade, 1997, {{ISBN|1-882425-09-X}}),
One Day with a Goat Herd (Wade, 1992, {{ISBN|0-9623934-6-0}}), about goat herding,
The Supernatural Side of Maine (Wade, 2002, {{ISBN|1-882425-16-2}}).

In his book about the supernatural in Maine, he d out-of-body experiences, witches, haunted houses, alien abductions, and people from Maine who faced the supernatural. in 2002.{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bangor/access/278791881.html?dids=278791881:278791881&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+20%2C+2003&author=Dana+Wilde%3B+Of+the+NEWS+Staff&pub=Bangor+Daily+News&desc=Weird+facts+of+Maine+cataloged&pqatl=google |title=Weird facts of Maine cataloged |work=Bangor Daily News |author=Dana Wilde |date=January 20, 2003 |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102215012/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bangor/access/278791881.html?dids=278791881:278791881&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jan+20,+2003&author=Dana+Wilde%3B+Of+the+NEWS+Staff&pub=Bangor+Daily+News&desc=Weird+facts+of+Maine+cataloged&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}

==Biographies==

Stevens wrote a series of biographies starting in the late 1980s. Two were biographies connected to a period in D. H. Lawrence's life in Cornwall

[https://books.google.com/books?id=47sNAAAAIAAJ Lawrence at Tregerthen (D. H. Lawrence)] (Whitston Pub. Co., 1988, {{ISBN|0-87875-348-6}}),
[https://books.google.com/books?id=47sNAAAAIAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens The Cornish Nightmare (D. H. Lawrence in Cornwall)] (Whitston Pub. Co., 1996, {{ISBN|0-87875-348-6}}), about D.H. Lawrence and the war years.

In 2000 Stevens published a biography of the American writer Erskine Caldwell,

[https://books.google.com/books?id=hEQIAAAACAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens Storyteller: A Life of Erskine Caldwell] (John Wade, 2000, {{ISBN|1-882425-11-1}}), and

in 2004 a biography of English primitive artist Bryan Pearce.

[https://books.google.com/books?id=FbZNAAAAYAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens The Miracle of Bryan Pearce] (John Wade, 2004, {{ISBN|1-882425-20-0}}), about a brain-damaged boy named Bryan Pearce who became a nationally acclaimed artist.

=Translations=

Stevens also had a career as a translator, translating a number of books to English from Dutch and Flemish. Under the name John Stevens Wade he translated [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/639855244 Terrena Troubahi], by Paul De Vree (Ganglia Press) in 1960, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bjliPwAACAAJ Poems from the Lowlands] (Small Pond) from the Dutch and Flemish in 1967,{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0mUYAQAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |title=Ole |journal=Tucson Citizen |year=1964 |access-date=July 10, 2010 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192558/https://books.google.com/books?id=0mUYAQAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |url-status=live }} [https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-One-New-Poets-Schreiber/dp/0809000903 Thirty-One New Poets] (Schreiber (editor), Hill & Wang Pub, 1968, {{ISBN|0-8090-0090-3}}), [https://books.google.com/books?id=f0tzOQAACAAJ Waterland: A Gathering from Holland] (Holmgangers Press, 1977, translator from the Dutch), and [https://books.google.com/books?id=ssgHAQAAMAAJ From the Flemish of Gaston Burssens] (Arts End Books, 1982, {{ISBN|0-933292-11-2}}) Subsequently, translating under the name C. J. Stevens, he translated [https://www.amazon.com/Score-Two-Years-Uncommon-Fanfare/dp/0874230403 One Score-And-Two Years of Uncommon Fanfare] (John Edward Westburg (editor), Westburg Asso Pub, 1986, {{ISBN|0-87423-040-3}}), and collected and translated [https://books.google.com/books?id=JCPiAAAAMAAJ&q=C.+J.+Stevens Poems from Holland and Belgium] (John Wade, 1999, {{ISBN|1-882425-13-8}}).

=Career outside writing=

Over his lifetime, Stevens had many jobs: as a farmer, deliveryman, selectman, and assistant manager at Carvel Hall, an Annapolis landmark.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TDkpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F2UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3399,4267707&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en Yvette Raymond, "Retired Professor Pans for Gold in Maine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192559/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TDkpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F2UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3399%2C4267707&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en |date=March 20, 2022 }}, Sun Journal, October 21, 1989 Stevens lived overseas for five years, two of those in the Netherlands, moving approximately every six months to countries including Ireland, England, Portugal, and Malta.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kmUkAQAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |title=Resurgence |year=1972 |access-date=April 26, 2016 |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192559/https://books.google.com/books?id=kmUkAQAAIAAJ&q=%22john+stevens+wade%22 |url-status=live }}

His interest in images led him to become a poet and a writer. It also led to a second career in painting, and along with his writing, he compiles a photographer's portfolio.{{cite web |url=http://cjstevensphotography.com/statement.html |title=Statement |publisher=Cjstevensphotography.com |author=C. J. Stevens |date=July 25, 2007 |access-date=July 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708161737/http://cjstevensphotography.com/statement.html |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |url-status=dead }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426080726/http://www.cjstevensphotography.com/galleries_paintings.html Photographs of his paintings] may be seen at this photography site. His biographies and other non-fiction are unusual, in that in all cases he had access to either the subject or to someone intimate with the subject–a wife, friend, lover, or mother.

Stevens also lectured and traveled extensively, living in Phillips, Maine, in Weld, Maine, in Temple, Maine, and in South Carolina with his Dutch wife Stella Rachel (née Taschlicky) Stevens, whom he married on June 13, 1954.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=54cgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4995,6486265&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en "Author to Talk on Gold Mining"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192559/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=54cgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4995%2C6486265&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en |date=March 20, 2022 }}, Sun Journal, May 28, 1990. Retrieved July 10, 2010.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gd0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B2sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1412,1491711&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en Lisa Price, "Voices for Blind Focuses on Maine Authors"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320192615/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Gd0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B2sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1412%2C1491711&dq=cj-stevens&hl=en |date=March 20, 2022 }}, Sun Journal, September 7, 1995

References

External links

[http://www.johnwade.com/ John Wade (publisher)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708161830/http://cjstevensphotography.com/index.html C. J. Stevens Photography]

Category:1927 births

Category:2021 deaths

Category:American male poets

Category:Writers from Maine

Category:American short story writers

Category:American biographers

Category:Writers from South Carolina

Category:Central Connecticut State University alumni

Category:American translators

Category:Dutch–English translators

Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty

Category:American gold prospectors

Category:American male short story writers

Category:People from Somerset County, Maine

Category:People from Phillips, Maine

Category:People from Temple, Maine

Category:People from Franklin County, Maine

Category:American male biographers