Episode 70: Stephanie Storey: Author Stephanie Storey (Raphael, Painter in Rome) took a rather circuitous route from Hot Springs, Arkansas to Hollywood. After studying Art History at Vanderbilt, she made her way to Los Angeles where she began working in television. There, she learned the craft of storytelling and interviewing while working her way up as a producer on various television programs.
Then, she wrote her first book—Oil and Marble—which became a best seller. So what comes next besides the existential dread that comes with success? Her second book, Raphael, Painter in Rome, which is out now.
About Stephanie Storey
Stephanie Storey’s debut novel Oil and Marble was hailed as “tremendously entertaining” by The New York Times, was named one of Hudson Booksellers’ Best Books of 2016, and is currently in development as a feature film by Pioneer Pictures. Her newest novel, Raphael, Painter in Rome, came out in April 2020 in conjunction with the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death.
Stephanie has a degree in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University and attended a PhD program in Art History, before leaving to get her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She has studied art in Italy and been on a pilgrimage to see every Michelangelo on display in Europe.
She has also been a national television producer for nearly twenty years for shows including Alec Baldwin on ABC, Arsenio Hall for CBS, and Emmy-nominated The Writers’ Room on the Sundance Channel.
When not writing novels or producing television, she can usually be found — with her husband, an actor and Emmy-winning comedy writer — traveling the world in search of her next story.
