Awards & Winners

Steven Saylor

Date of Birth 23-March-1956
Place of Birth Port Lavaca
(Calhoun County, Texas, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Aaron Travis, Stephen Saylor
Profession Writer, Novelist
Steven Saylor is an American author of historical novels. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied history and classics. Saylor's best-known work is his Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series, set in ancient Rome. The novels' hero is a detective named Gordianus the Finder, active during the time of Sulla, Cicero, Julius Caesar, and Cleopatra. Outside this crime novel series, Saylor has also written two epic-length historical novels about the city of Rome, Roma and Empire. His work has been published in 21 languages. Saylor has also written two novels set in Texas. A Twist at the End, featuring O. Henry, is set in Austin in the 1880s and based on real-life serial murders and trials. Have You Seen Dawn? is a contemporary thriller set in a fictional Texas town, Amethyst, based on Saylor's hometown, Goldthwaite, Texas. Saylor contributed autobiographical essays to three anthologies of gay writing edited by John Preston, Hometowns, A Member of the Family, and Friends and Lovers, and prior to his novel-writing career he published gay erotic fiction under the pen name Aaron Travis. Saylor has lived with Richard Solomon since 1976; they registered as domestic partners in San Francisco in 1991 and later dissolved that partnership in order to legally marry in October 2008. The couple split their time between properties in Berkeley, California, and Austin, Texas.

Awards by Steven Saylor

Check all the awards nominated and won by Steven Saylor.

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award The Judgement of Caesar

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award Last seen in Massilia

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery A Murder on the Appian Way

1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery The Venus Throw: A Novel of Ancient Rome

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dilys Award Catilina's Riddle

1993


Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery
Honored for : Catilina's Riddle
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
Honored for : A Will Is A Way

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Mystery Catilina's Riddle