Steven B. Mandel

58, Male

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Chicago
About Me:
When I'm not writing a new novel or researching the next, I earn a buck as an award-winning creative director for a Chicago ad agency.

A life-long Chicago-area resident, I'm a graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago, with a degree in Communications and Theatre. And since the Theatre part was never really his thing, I decided to focus on the Communications.

Upon entering the field of advertising, I found that I was extremely good at convincing people to buy things they really didn’t need. Still, while I enjoyed advertising, he knew something was missing.

And after devouring novels from the likes of Eugene Izzi, Ed McBain and Andrew Vacchs to name a few, I realized that my true calling was to be a novelist.

Yes…I thought…I will write books and take the literary world by storm!

The literary world, however, had other plans. Plans, it seemed, geared toward keeping me querying agents and publishers for ages until my first novel, Another Lost Angel, was purchased and published in May, 2006, by Thomson Gale/Five Star.

I currently reside in the western suburbs of Chicago, with my wife, three daughters and a black lab named Jake.
Website:
http://www.stevemandelbooks.com
Books And Authors I Like:
Anything by Eugene Izzi, Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Nick Hornby, Victor Gischler.
Historical non-fiction, particularly Stephen Ambrose (for incredible insight into WWII) and Bruce Chadwick (awesome Revolutionary War stuff)
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Movies:
Rocky (the original and still the best!)
Pulp Fiction
Resivoir Dogs
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Die Hard
Casablanca
Office Space


TV:
The Office
My Name is Earl
Scrubs
30 Rock
Heroes
Studio 60
Lost
How I Met Your Mother

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  • Joan Conwell

    I love Chicago, but not as much as NYC!!! Thanks for the invite....
  • Johnno

    I also love Chicago - my favorite vacation destination. I saw Wicked there last year.
  • Shirley Wells

    Hi, Steven, and thanks for the invite. As for blogging, I keep forgetting to update mine.
    Love your films/TV list.