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Kevin Stevens is a US native now living in Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of two novels, Song for Katya, a love story set in the Soviet Union during the frigid years of the Brezhnev regime, and The Rizzoli Contract, a political thriller set in 1980s Boston.

Kevin’s nonfiction includes The Cops Are Robbers, an account of New England’s largest bank burglary, which was made into an NBC Movie of the Week starring Ed Asner and George Kennedy, and The Bird Era, a history of the Boston Celtics basketball team from 1978 to 1988.

Kevin contributes regularly to The Irish Times, primarily on topics from US history and politics. He is also the jazz critic for The Journal of Music in Ireland. He is close to completion of his third novel, a story of love and loss set in Montana in the 1960s.

Several years ago, Kevin described his Books of Influence in an interview with the Sunday Tribune. Lately he has been reading Richard Ford and Cormac McCarthy and listening to Pilgrimage by saxophonist Michael Brecker, who died last year.