{{Short description|American novelist (1938–2022)}}
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> |image = |imagesize = 150px | | name = Richard Lipez | caption = | pseudonym = Richard Stevenson | birth_name = Richard Stevenson Lipez | birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|11|30}} | birth_place = Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date ={{death date and age|2022|3|16|1938|11|30}} | death_place =Becket, Massachusetts, U.S. | occupation = Novelist | nationality = American | period = | genre = Mystery, Detective fiction, Journalist, Columnist | spouse = Hedy Lipez (19??-1989; divorced)<ref>[https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Lipez__Richard Profile], The Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Accessed February 19, 2024.</ref><br>{{marriage|Joe Wheaton|2004}} | children = 2 }}
'''Richard Stevenson Lipez'''<ref name="nyt" /> (November 30, 1938 – March 16, 2022), commonly known by his pen name '''Richard Stevenson''', was an American journalist and mystery author, most recently residing in Massachusetts.<ref name="lipezbio">{{cite web |last=Gutmann |first=Martin |title=Richard Lipez |url=http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Lipez__Richard.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805141840/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Lipez__Richard.html |archive-date=2009-08-05 |access-date=2025-08-07 |publisher=The Pennsylvania Center for the Book}}</ref> He was best known for his Donald Strachey mysteries.
Lipez was openly gay,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gutmann |first=Martin |title=Richard Lipez |url=http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Lipez__Richard.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805141840/http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Lipez__Richard.html |archive-date=2009-08-05 |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=The Pennsylvania Center for the Book}}</ref> and married his husband Joe Wheaton in 2004. He died from pancreatic cancer on March 16, 2022, at the age of 83.<ref name="nyt">{{cite web|title=Richard Lipez, Who Reimagined the Gay Detective Novel, Dies at 83|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/books/richard-stevenson-lipez-dead.html|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|work=The New York Times|date=March 30, 2022|accessdate=March 30, 2022}}</ref>
==Awards== {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Award !Result !Ref. |- |1993 |''Third Man Out'' | rowspan="1" |Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | rowspan="1" |Finalist |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Edit |date=1993-07-14 |title=5th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1993/07/lambda-literary-awards-1992/ |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |1996 |''Shock to the System'' | rowspan="1" |Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | rowspan="1" |Finalist |<ref name=":342">{{Cite web |last=Admin |first=Lambda |date=1996-07-15 |title=8th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1996/07/lambda-literary-awards-1995/ |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |1999 |''Strachey’s Folly'' | rowspan="1" |Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | rowspan="1" |Finalist |<ref name=":372">{{Cite web|last=Antonio|first=Gonzalez Cerna|date=1999-07-15|title=11th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/1999/07/lambda-literary-awards-1998/|access-date=2022-01-18|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2" |2011 | rowspan="2" |''Cockeyed'' | rowspan="1" |Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery | rowspan="1" |Finalist |<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=William |date=2011-06-27 |title=23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2011/06/22nd-annual-lambda-literary-awards/ |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en-US}}</ref> |- |TLA Gaybie Award for Best Gay Mystery | rowspan="1" |Finalist |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cockeyed (Donald Strachey, #11) |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9195703-cockeyed |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=TLA Gaybies {{!}} Awards and Honors {{!}} LibraryThing |url=https://www.librarything.com/award/4712/TLA-Gaybies |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=LibraryThing.com |language=en}}</ref> |- |2012 |''Red White Black and Blue'' | rowspan="1" |Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery |'''Winner''' |<ref name=":262">{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Edit |date=2012-06-05 |title=24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced in New York |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2012/06/24th-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners-announced-in-new-york/ |access-date=2025-08-07 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en-US}}</ref> |}
==Publications==
* ''Grand Scam'', with Peter Stein (1980)
===Donald Strachey Mysteries=== # ''Death Trick'' (1981) # ''On the Other Hand, Death'' (1984) # ''Ice Blues'' (1986) # ''Third Man Out'' (1992) # ''Shock to the System'' (1995) # ''Chain of Fools'' (1996) # ''Strachey's Folly'' (1998) # ''Tongue Tied'' (2003) # ''Death Vows'' (2008) # ''The 38 Million Dollar Smile'' (2009) # ''Cockeyed'' (2010) # ''Red White Black and Blue'' (2011) # ''The Last Thing I Saw'' (2012) # ''Why Stop at Vengeance'' (2015) # ''WWW.Dropdead'' (2016) # ''Killer Reunion'' (2019) # ''Chasing Rembrandt'' (2023) '''Clifford Waterman'''
# Knock Off the Hat (2022)
==Filmography== * ''Third Man Out'' (2005) * ''Shock to the System'' (2006) * ''On the Other Hand, Death'' (2008) * ''Ice Blues'' (2008)
==References== <references/>
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=2123185|name=Richard Stevenson}} * [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/richard-stevenson/ Richard Lipez's book listing as Richard Stevenson at Fantastic Fiction] * [http://www.donaldstracheymysteries.com/ Donald Strachey mysteries web page on the MLR Press website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090403023427/http://donaldstracheymysteries.com/author.php Biographical notes on Richard Stevenson] * [http://www.mlrpress.com/AllInterviews.php?file=interview/Richard_Stevenson_interview.html/ Interview with Richard Stevenson]
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