Jeff Stetson

{{short description|American dramatist}}

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|birth_place=United States

|occupation=Playwright, novelist

|genre=Theatre, fiction

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Jeff Stetson is an American writer best known for such novels and plays as Blood on the Leaves[http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-446-52706-4 Publishers Weekly] and The Meeting, a 1987 play about an imaginary meeting between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in 1965 in a hotel in Harlem.[https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/02/02/the-balancing-act-5/ The Chicago Tribune]{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2014/01/the_meeting_imagines_a_meeting.php |title=Houston Press |access-date=2014-02-25 |archive-date=2014-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226013310/http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2014/01/the_meeting_imagines_a_meeting.php |url-status=dead }} The play was later televised on American Playhouse in 1989.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-08-ca-1254-story.html The Los Angeles Times]{{cite news |title=Review/Television; An Imaginary Meeting of Dr. King and Malcolm X (Published 1989) |work=The New York Times |date=3 May 1989 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529234038/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/03/arts/review-television-an-imaginary-meeting-of-dr-king-and-malcolm-x.html |archive-date=2023-05-29 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/03/arts/review-television-an-imaginary-meeting-of-dr-king-and-malcolm-x.html |last1=Goodman |first1=Walter }}