Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter, born March 25, 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American novelist, essayist, and film critic. He grew up in Evanston, Illinois, with his father Charles Francis Hunter, a speech professor, and mother Virginia Ricker Hunter, a writer of children's books. After earning a journalism degree from Northwestern University in 1968, Hunter served in the United States Army for two years, stationed in Washington, D.C. as part of The Old Guard. He later worked at The Baltimore Sun as a copy editor before becoming the newspaper's film critic in 1982. Hunter then moved to The Washington Post, where he continued his career as a film critic.