“Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.”

American novelist

Stephen Michael Erickson is an American novelist known for works such as Days Between Stations, Tours of the Black Clock and Zeroville. His fiction has brought him recognition as a distinctive voice in contemporary American literature. He is the author of several influential novels, including Days Between Stations, Tours of the Black Clock and Zeroville. His career has been marked by honors such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.