Stephen Lisle Carter (born October 26, 1954)[1] is an American law professor at Yale University, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.
Carter was born in Washington, DC, the second of his parents' five children.[1][2] He was raised in a family committed to public service. His mother worked as an executive assistant for Julian Bond and M. Carl Holman of the National Urban Coalition. An attorney turned administrator, his father was Executive Director of the Washington Urban League, and later a vice president at Cornell University. Carter's grandfather was a successful dentist in Harlem and his grandmother, Eunice Hunton Carter, was the first black woman to be a district attorney in New York state.[3] His great-grandmother was the suffragist and activist Addie Waites Hunton.
Carter graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, and his essay "The Best Black" is based in part on his experiences there. At Ithaca High School, he was the editor-in-chief of The Tattler, and pushed hard for student representation on the local school board.[4]
Carter earned his B.A. in history from Stanford University in 1976.[1] At Stanford he served as managing editor for The Stanford Daily. Carter received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979.[5] At Yale, he won the prize for best oralist in the Thurmond Arnold Moot Court Competition and served as a note editor on the Yale Law Journal.[6]
Currently, Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1982. At Yale, he teaches courses on contracts, evidence, professional responsibility, ethics in literature, intellectual property, and the law and ethics of war.
His second novel, New England White, and third, Palace Council, form a trilogy of sorts with The Emperor of Ocean Park, all being set in the fictional New England town of Elm Harbor, with some characters from each book appearing in the others.
His fourth novel, Jericho's Fall, was published in July 2009.[20][21][22] His book, The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama, was published in 2011. In August 2014, The Globe and Mail tagged Carter's Back Channel as one of "five new crime novels worth a read."[23]
Carter's work is seen frequently on the op-ed pages of major newspapers. In addition to his policy writings and novels, Carter for several years wrote a feature column in Christianity Today magazine, and he has been quoted in the media on religion in public life.[24] He is currently a Bloomberg View columnist at Bloomberg.com.[25][26]
Personal
Carter was raised in Harlem, in Washington, D.C., and in Ithaca, New York.[27] He and his wife, Enola G. Aird, have two children.[28][29] They reside in Connecticut and summer in Martha's Vineyard.[30] They attend St. Luke's Episcopal Church, one of the oldest predominantly black Episcopal churches in the country.[31][32]
Works
Non-fiction
External video
Booknotes interview with Carter on Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, September 29, 1991, C-SPAN
Presentation by Carter on The Culture of Disbelief, September 27, 1996, C-SPAN
Presentation by Carter on Civility, August 4, 1998, C-SPAN
Presentation by Carter on God's Name in Vain, October 15, 2000, C-SPAN
Presentation by Carter on Invisible, October 15, 2018, C-SPAN
Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby. New York: Basic Books, 1991, ISBN0-465-06871-5.
The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process. New York: Basic Books, 1994, ISBN0-465-01364-3.
Integrity. New York: Harper Perennial, 1997, ISBN0-06-092807-7. This book regards the current state of public integrity and its philosophical underpinnings.
Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999, ISBN0-06-097759-0.
God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics. New York: Basic Books, 2001, ISBN0-465-00887-9.
The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama New York: PublicAffairs, 2011, ISBN098429516X.
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2018, ISBN9781250121974.
Novels
External video
Presentation by Carter on The Emperor of Ocean Park, November 23, 2002, C-SPAN
Interview with Carter on The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, September 22, 2012, C-SPAN
The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002) is a mystery and thriller involving the law professor son of a disgraced federal judge, whose nomination to the United States Supreme Court collapsed in scandal, and the son's search for the truth behind his father's death.
New England White (2007) is a thriller in which the wife of the president of an Ivy League university suspects that her husband is covering up a murder committed 30 years ago by one of his two roommates, who are running against one another for the Presidency of the United States.
Palace Council (2008) involves a two-decade conspiracy to gain control of the Oval Office. The story is set in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and the major characters include Eddie Wesley, a Harlem writer; Aurelia, the woman Eddie loves, who becomes a professor at Cornell University; and a number of real-life historical figures, including Richard Nixon and Langston Hughes.
Jericho's Fall (2009) recounts the last days of a "Former Everything" (including Secretary of Defense and CIA Director) who is determined to reveal secrets and the struggles that result, all on a Colorado mountaintop and in a small Colorado town.
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (2012) is a legal drama-turned-thriller whose plot revolves around the speculation of what would have happened had Abraham Lincoln survived his assassination and gone on to be impeached for exceeding his constitutional authority during the American Civil War. The protagonist Abigail, a young, female, black law graduate, experiences various misadventures in post-War Washington, D.C. as she assists on the President's legal defense team.
The Church Builder (2013). Published under the nom de plume A. L. Shields, this is the first in a planned series of "Christian" novels about a secret war between faith and the enemies of faith.
Back Channel (2014) is a thriller set against the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis. a second negotiation—the "back channel"—kept secret even from most of Kennedy's closest advisers. The protagonist, Margo Jensen, a 19-year-old black college student, finds both her courage and her intellect tested constantly as she is thrust unwillingly into the center of great events. She must risk her life as Kennedy's envoy and risk her reputation as (supposedly) Kennedy's lover, all the while seeking to uncover the hidden connection between her own family's past and the crisis unfolding around her. Real people here include Bobby Fischer, the 19-year-old chess champion of the United States and Aleksandr Fomin, head of the KGB's Washington station. Fictional characters from previous works include Jericho Ainsley (Jericho's Fall), Tori Elden (Palace Council), and Kimmer Madison (The Emperor of Ocean Park; New England White) as a toddler.
^Owen, David (June 3, 2002). "From Race to Chase". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
^"Masthead for Vol 88, 1979". Yale Law Journal. Retrieved September 19, 2017. Stephen L. Carter...Notes Editors
^"Commencement: Degree citation: Stephen L. Carter". Bates College. May 26, 2003. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^"The Colgate Scene: The Speakers and the Honored". Colgate University. July 1998. Retrieved September 18, 2017. Others receiving honorary degrees were Yale law professor and author Stephen Carter (doctor of laws)
^. Archived from the original on September 23, 2010.
^"Class of 2008 Nomination Form, Honorary Degree Recipients, 1988–2007". University of Notre Dame. May 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2017. 1996, Dr. Stephen L. Carter, New Haven, CT
^"News release: Yale law professor Carter to speak at '94 commencement". Stanford University. January 25, 1994. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Smith, Dinitia (May 22, 2002). "An Academic Ready to Take the Plunge Into Novelistic Success". The New York Times. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Schlack, Julie Wittes (July 17, 2008). "Mystery, politics in historical context". Boston Globe. Boston.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017. A negative review of Carter's Palace Council.
^Wells, Julia (July 4, 2002). "Blockbuster First Novel Surprises Modest Author Stephen Carter". The Vineyard Gazette. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^"Anisfield-Wolf award winners by year". The Cleveland Foundation. 2017. from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
^. African American Literature Book Club. Archived from the original on February 26, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
^"Stephen L. Carter: Book Fest 07". Library of Congress. 2007. from the original on July 20, 2015. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
^"LA Times Book Award nominees". from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
^Rubin, Martin (August 2, 2009). "Book review: 'Jericho's Fall,' by Stephen L. Carter". New Haven Register. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Bohjalian, Chris (August 9, 2009). "Tangle of former lovers and a national security threat". Boston Globe. Boston.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Cannon, Margaret (July 11, 2009). "Crime Books". Toronto Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Cannon, Margaret (August 1, 2014). "On the case: Five new crime novels worth a read". Toronto Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Shribman, David (December 11, 1994). "Presidents and prayer". Boston Globe. Boston.com. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^"Contributors: Stephen L. Carter". bloomberg.com. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
^Carter, Stephen L. (July 4, 2017). "Commentary: Supreme Court is last leak-proof institution". Chicago Tribune. Bloomberg View. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^"About the Author" March 28, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, StephenCarterBooks.com
^"Enola Aird, Esq. - Founder and President". CommunityHealing.org. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Aird, Enola (March 25, 2015). "Remembering the people who made a way out of no way". New Haven Register. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
^Seccombe, Mike (July 19, 2010). "Books, Not Bumper Stickers: Stephen Carter Defends Debate". The Vineyard Gazette. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
Booknotes interview with Carter on Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, Booknotes.org. September 29, 1991.
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Stephen Lisle Carter born October 26 1954 1 is an American law professor at Yale University legal and social policy writer columnist and best selling novelist Stephen L CarterCarter at the 2015 National Book FestivalBornStephen Lisle Carter 1954 10 26 October 26 1954 age 68 Washington D C United StatesAlma materStanford University Yale Law SchoolOccupation s Author lawyerKnown forNovels and social commentaryParent s Lisle Carter JrEmily Elizabeth HowzeRelativesEunice Carter grandmother Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Legal career 3 Writing career 4 Personal 5 Works 5 1 Non fiction 5 2 Novels 6 See also 7 References 8 External links 9 VideosEarly life and education EditCarter was born in Washington DC the second of his parents five children 1 2 He was raised in a family committed to public service His mother worked as an executive assistant for Julian Bond and M Carl Holman of the National Urban Coalition An attorney turned administrator his father was Executive Director of the Washington Urban League and later a vice president at Cornell University Carter s grandfather was a successful dentist in Harlem and his grandmother Eunice Hunton Carter was the first black woman to be a district attorney in New York state 3 His great grandmother was the suffragist and activist Addie Waites Hunton Carter graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972 and his essay The Best Black is based in part on his experiences there At Ithaca High School he was the editor in chief of The Tattler and pushed hard for student representation on the local school board 4 Carter earned his B A in history from Stanford University in 1976 1 At Stanford he served as managing editor for The Stanford Daily Carter received a J D from Yale Law School in 1979 5 At Yale he won the prize for best oralist in the Thurmond Arnold Moot Court Competition and served as a note editor on the Yale Law Journal 6 Carter has received eight honorary degrees including Bates College 7 Colgate University 8 Hamilton College 9 and the University of Notre Dame 10 In 1994 he delivered the commencement speech at Stanford University 11 Legal career EditFollowing graduation from Yale Carter served as a law clerk for Judge Spottswood W Robinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and subsequently for U S Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall from 1980 to 1981 12 Currently Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School where he has taught since 1982 At Yale he teaches courses on contracts evidence professional responsibility ethics in literature intellectual property and the law and ethics of war Writing career EditCarter s non fiction books have received praise from voices across the political spectrum from Marion Wright Edelman to John Joseph O Connor Carter s first novel The Emperor of Ocean Park spent 11 weeks on the New York Times best seller list in 2002 13 14 It won both the 2003 Anisfield Wolf Book Award Fiction 15 and the 2003 BCALA Literary Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association 16 with further nominations for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Fiction 17 the CWA New Blood Dagger from the Crime Writer s Association 18 and the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the mystery thriller category 19 His second novel New England White and third Palace Council form a trilogy of sorts with The Emperor of Ocean Park all being set in the fictional New England town of Elm Harbor with some characters from each book appearing in the others His fourth novel Jericho s Fall was published in July 2009 20 21 22 His book The Violence of Peace America s Wars in the Age of Obama was published in 2011 In August 2014 The Globe and Mail tagged Carter s Back Channel as one of five new crime novels worth a read 23 Carter s work is seen frequently on the op ed pages of major newspapers In addition to his policy writings and novels Carter for several years wrote a feature column in Christianity Today magazine and he has been quoted in the media on religion in public life 24 He is currently a Bloomberg View columnist at Bloomberg com 25 26 Personal EditCarter was raised in Harlem in Washington D C and in Ithaca New York 27 He and his wife Enola G Aird have two children 28 29 They reside in Connecticut and summer in Martha s Vineyard 30 They attend St Luke s Episcopal Church one of the oldest predominantly black Episcopal churches in the country 31 32 Works EditNon fiction Edit External video Booknotes interview with Carter on Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby September 29 1991 C SPAN Presentation by Carter on The Culture of Disbelief September 27 1996 C SPAN Presentation by Carter on Civility August 4 1998 C SPAN Presentation by Carter on God s Name in Vain October 15 2000 C SPAN Presentation by Carter on Invisible October 15 2018 C SPANReflections of an Affirmative Action Baby New York Basic Books 1991 ISBN 0 465 06871 5 The Culture of Disbelief How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion New York Anchor 1991 ISBN 0 385 47498 9 Received the 1994 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award in Religion 33 The Confirmation Mess Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process New York Basic Books 1994 ISBN 0 465 01364 3 Integrity New York Harper Perennial 1997 ISBN 0 06 092807 7 This book regards the current state of public integrity and its philosophical underpinnings The Dissent of the Governed A Meditation on Law Religion and Loyalty Cambridge Harvard University Press 1998 ISBN 0 674 21265 7 Civility Manners Morals and the Etiquette of Democracy New York Harper Perennial 1999 ISBN 0 06 097759 0 God s Name in Vain The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics New York Basic Books 2001 ISBN 0 465 00887 9 The Violence of Peace America s Wars in the Age of Obama New York PublicAffairs 2011 ISBN 098429516X Invisible The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America s Most Powerful Mobster New York Henry Holt and Company 2018 ISBN 9781250121974 Novels Edit External video Presentation by Carter on The Emperor of Ocean Park November 23 2002 C SPAN Interview with Carter on The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln September 22 2012 C SPANThe Emperor of Ocean Park 2002 is a mystery and thriller involving the law professor son of a disgraced federal judge whose nomination to the United States Supreme Court collapsed in scandal and the son s search for the truth behind his father s death New England White 2007 is a thriller in which the wife of the president of an Ivy League university suspects that her husband is covering up a murder committed 30 years ago by one of his two roommates who are running against one another for the Presidency of the United States Palace Council 2008 involves a two decade conspiracy to gain control of the Oval Office The story is set in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s and the major characters include Eddie Wesley a Harlem writer Aurelia the woman Eddie loves who becomes a professor at Cornell University and a number of real life historical figures including Richard Nixon and Langston Hughes Jericho s Fall 2009 recounts the last days of a Former Everything including Secretary of Defense and CIA Director who is determined to reveal secrets and the struggles that result all on a Colorado mountaintop and in a small Colorado town The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln 2012 is a legal drama turned thriller whose plot revolves around the speculation of what would have happened had Abraham Lincoln survived his assassination and gone on to be impeached for exceeding his constitutional authority during the American Civil War The protagonist Abigail a young female black law graduate experiences various misadventures in post War Washington D C as she assists on the President s legal defense team The Church Builder 2013 Published under the nom de plume A L Shields this is the first in a planned series of Christian novels about a secret war between faith and the enemies of faith Back Channel 2014 is a thriller set against the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis a second negotiation the back channel kept secret even from most of Kennedy s closest advisers The protagonist Margo Jensen a 19 year old black college student finds both her courage and her intellect tested constantly as she is thrust unwillingly into the center of great events She must risk her life as Kennedy s envoy and risk her reputation as supposedly Kennedy s lover all the while seeking to uncover the hidden connection between her own family s past and the crisis unfolding around her Real people here include Bobby Fischer the 19 year old chess champion of the United States and Aleksandr Fomin head of the KGB s Washington station Fictional characters from previous works include Jericho Ainsley Jericho s Fall Tori Elden Palace Council and Kimmer Madison The Emperor of Ocean Park New England White as a toddler See also EditBlack conservatism in the United States List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Seat 10 References Edit a b c Carter Stephen L 1954 Encyclopedia com Stephen L Carter AALBC Freeman John July 15 2007 Master Mixer of Elitism Murder Hartford Courant pp G03 G06 Retrieved April 19 2018 The Tattler September 15 1971 Owen David June 3 2002 From Race to Chase The New Yorker Retrieved September 19 2017 Masthead for Vol 88 1979 Yale Law Journal Retrieved September 19 2017 Stephen L Carter Notes Editors Commencement Degree citation Stephen L Carter Bates College May 26 2003 Retrieved September 18 2017 The Colgate Scene The Speakers and the Honored Colgate University July 1998 Retrieved September 18 2017 Others receiving honorary degrees were Yale law professor and author Stephen Carter doctor of laws Hamilton College Honorary Degree Recipients Archived from the original on September 23 2010 Class of 2008 Nomination Form Honorary Degree Recipients 1988 2007 University of Notre Dame May 2008 Retrieved September 19 2017 1996 Dr Stephen L Carter New Haven CT News release Yale law professor Carter to speak at 94 commencement Stanford University January 25 1994 Retrieved September 18 2017 Smith Dinitia May 22 2002 An Academic Ready to Take the Plunge Into Novelistic Success The New York Times Retrieved September 18 2017 Schlack Julie Wittes July 17 2008 Mystery politics in historical context Boston Globe Boston com Retrieved September 18 2017 A negative review of Carter s Palace Council Wells Julia July 4 2002 Blockbuster First Novel Surprises Modest Author Stephen Carter The Vineyard Gazette Retrieved September 18 2017 Anisfield Wolf award winners by year The Cleveland Foundation 2017 Archived from the original on December 9 2014 Retrieved February 13 2018 The Emperor of Ocean Park African American Literature Book Club Archived from the original on February 26 2018 Retrieved February 19 2018 Stephen L Carter Book Fest 07 Library of Congress 2007 Archived from the original on July 20 2015 Retrieved February 13 2018 John Creasey New Blood 2002 Crime Writer s Association Retrieved February 13 2018 LA Times Book Award nominees Archived from the original on July 10 2017 Retrieved February 20 2018 Rubin Martin August 2 2009 Book review Jericho s Fall by Stephen L Carter New Haven Register Retrieved September 18 2017 Bohjalian Chris August 9 2009 Tangle of former lovers and a national security threat Boston Globe Boston com Retrieved September 18 2017 Cannon Margaret July 11 2009 Crime Books Toronto Globe and Mail Retrieved September 18 2017 Cannon Margaret August 1 2014 On the case Five new crime novels worth a read Toronto Globe and Mail Retrieved September 18 2017 Shribman David December 11 1994 Presidents and prayer Boston Globe Boston com Retrieved September 18 2017 Contributors Stephen L Carter bloomberg com Retrieved September 2 2014 Carter Stephen L July 4 2017 Commentary Supreme Court is last leak proof institution Chicago Tribune Bloomberg View Retrieved September 18 2017 About the Author Archived March 28 2016 at the Wayback Machine StephenCarterBooks com Enola Aird Esq Founder and President CommunityHealing org Retrieved September 18 2017 Aird Enola March 25 2015 Remembering the people who made a way out of no way New Haven Register Retrieved September 18 2017 Seccombe Mike July 19 2010 Books Not Bumper Stickers Stephen Carter Defends Debate The Vineyard Gazette Retrieved September 18 2017 Bio for 2001 lecture Can Religion Tolerate Democracy and Vice Versa Yale edu Saint Luke s Episcopal Church New Haven Connecticut 1844 BlackPast org Retrieved September 18 2017 1994 Stephen L Carter Grawemeyer Awards July 21 1994 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stephen L Carter Wikiquote has quotations related to Stephen L Carter Stephen Carter s website Yale Law School s page on Stephen L Carter Collection of columns for Christianity Today by Stephen L Carter Videos EditAppearances on C SPAN Booknotes interview 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