Stephen Koch

Stephen Koch is the author of the novels, Night Watch and The Bachelor’s Bride, and of several nonfiction works: Stargazer: Andy Warhol’s World; Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzen­berg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals; The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of José Robles; and The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop. He taught the craft of fiction to graduate students for more than twenty years in the writing division of the Columbia University School of the Arts and to undergraduates for seven years in the Princeton University Program in Creative Writing, and was the director of the Peter Hujar Archive. Koch died at the age of eighty-four on February 24, 2026.