About the author

Steve is retired but was most recently a freelance special-effects model maker for movies and TV commercials. When not writing, he still pursues his art by creating digital paintings and his own 3-D sculpture projects. He also loves to create special furniture and environments for Sunny, his flame point Siamese cat.

Steve, originally from Kansas City, KS, moved to San Francisco in 1964. He served as an officer in the Navy for 4 years, stationed in Hawaii. Steve pursued graduate work in art at College of Arts and Crafts and University of California, Berkeley.

He and his wife, Joyce, relocated to the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA. He worked as a tour guide for the White House of the Confederacy, and conducted historical research for his writings and educational presentations on the Civil War. After 10 years, they returned to the San Francisco Bay Area, where they now reside.

Other literary accomplishments:

• Enduring Tales of Gettysburg: The Death of Reynolds, by S.G. Sanders, published in issue #14, The Gettysburg Magazine.

• Civil War Art of Walton Tabor, Calendars produced by the author featuring the artwork of Walton Tabor, the most accomplished draughtsman of the 19th century to create Civil War illustrations.

•An hour-long monologue chronicling the lives of the Jefferson Davis family while residents of the White House of the Confederacy. Researched and written by the author, delivered on tours at the Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA.

• Contributing historian consultant on KTVU-TV’s one-hour documentary, devoted to San Francisco’s Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915 (PPIE).

• Remnants of a Dream, research and copy for a website created to tell the story of the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, through those elements of the fair he discovered have survived to the present day.

• Knockout Dropper ­— self-published history of the first U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 to successfully complete 25 missions in the European theatre during WWII. (History has awarded Memphis Belle this honor, but her 25th mission was actually logged in several days after The Knockout Dropper had already completed its 25th mission.)