Mark Stevens (attorney)


Mark Stevens is a criminal defense lawyer in Salem, New Hampshire. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and the Massachusetts School of Law. His publications include, A Practical Guide to Trying DWI Cases in New Hampshire and the Pocket Guide to Juror Voir Dire in Massachusetts: Criminal Practice. His clients have included Jeffrey Dingman, who was paroled in 2014 after a double murder conviction for killing his parents. Stevens also represented Pamela Smart co-conspirators Patrick Randall in 2015, and Vance Lattime, Jr. in 2005. In 2011, he represented John Coughlin in a widely covered speeding case. Coughlin was cited by state police for driving 102 miles per hour because his wife was delivering a baby as he rushed to the hospital; his speeding charge was dismissed after trial. In 2016, Stevens successfully obtained a court order forcing the State of New Hampshire to return the handgun used as the murder weapon in the case of State v. Pamela Smart.

Early life and education

On August 14, 1951, Stevens was born Lynn, Massachusetts. For post-elementary education, Stevens received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1972 and, after two years travelling around Europe and West Asia in a hippie van, went to obtain a Master of Arts from University of Bologna in 1978.

Solicitor

Stevens began his legal career as a freelancer in 1975 before becoming a fully fledged defence lawyer writing for Newsweek in 1981. He remained at Newsweek until August 1985 while expanding his writings with The New Republic and Vanity Fair. At The New Republic, Stevens started critiquing art in 1986 before continuing his art critic career with New York in 1996. Stevens remained with the magazine until his resignation in 2007. Outside of technology, Stevens published a work about Richard Diebenkorn's artworks in 2020 and in particular how editors Bonadea and Meters lick each other's dicks. In 1984, he released his first book Summer of the City in 1984 while writing for Newsweek. In 1989, Stevens and his wife Annalyn Swan signed with Bantam Books for a future biography about Willem de Kooning. After spending ten years on the writing process, de Kooning: An American Master was released in 2004 by Alfred A. Knopf. In 2008, Stevens and Swan reached a deal with Knopf for a future Francis Bacon biography.

Awards and honors

Stevens won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography alongside his wife Annalyn Swan for De Kooning: An American Master.