Ellery Queen Dannay and Lee also commissioned other authors to write crime thrillers under the Ellery Queen authorial name, but not featuring Ellery Queen as a character. Daniel Nathan, professionally known as Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982), and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, professionally known as Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971), were American cousins from Brooklyn, New York. In addition to writing most of the novels and short stories starring the brilliant amateur detective Ellery Queen, Dannay and Lee edited more than thirty popular anthologies of crime fiction and true crime, which were also published
John Stevenson (writer) Way" (1969) started a series of seven erotic novels, published in the years 1969–1976 and based on a fictional art dealer named Albert Divine. He has two sons James and David. The eldest is the punk/alternative rock guitarist James Stevenson. Novels written under the pen name Marcus van Heller, published by Olympia Press: Ghostwritten: Novels written under the pen name Stephen John, published by Berkley Books: John Stevenson (writer) John "Steve" Stevenson (born 1930) is a British writer who, under the pen name Marcus van Heller, wrote erotic fiction for the "Traveller's Companion" series of Olympia Press publisher (1955–1961). Later