Born in Indianapolis, Steve Englehart went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He studied Psychology because people fascinated him, but in getting his B.A. he learned that psychology didn t describe real people, so he became a writer. He began his writing career on Marvel s Captain America in the early 1970s, and soon added The Hulk, The Avengers, Thor, Dr. Strange and half a dozen other series. He moved by DC Comics by the late 1970s to write a series of Batman tales and more. After Batman he travelled around Europe for a year and wrote his first novel, The Point Man. Since then he s designed video games for Atari, Activision, Electronic Arts and others. He s written animation for Street Fighter and G.I. Joe. He s written middle-grade books for Avon, including the DNAgers series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school programs on the invention of the airoplane. And he s written more comics, like Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer, which led to San Diego Comic-Con calling him comics most successful writer, having had more hits with more characters at more companies than anyone else in comics history. He created The Night Man, which became a live-action television series. Most recently, The Point Man has engendered a series of novels from Tor, beginning with The Long Man.
