
He has given an account of his relationship with his partner Richard Solomon in one of his ebooks called my Mother’s Ghost. Apart from being an author, Steven has also been a magazine and newspaper editor. Steven often goes on book tours and visits a number of cities like Amsterdam, Madrid, Budapest, Berlin, Oslo and Lisbon. One of the novels written by Steven in the Roma Sub Rosa series was featured in the New York Times bestselling novels’ list after which he appeared on The History Channel as an on-air expert to speak about the history and life of Rome. They have properties in California, Austin, and Berkeley and split their time at these places. Then, they dissolved their partnership in the year 2008 in order to get legally married following the guidelines of the court. Both of them registered themselves as domestic partners in the year 1991 in San Francisco. Since the 1976, Steven has lived along with Richard Solomon. The descriptions of the Amethyst town are similar to the hometown of Seven, Goldthwaite, Texas. In another thriller novel, Steven has set the plot in a fictional town of Texas known by the name Amethyst. In these novels, he has described the real life serial killings and trials. In another couple of novels, Steven has set the plot in Texas during the period of the 1800s. He has given epic-length descriptions about the history of Rome, which have been translated into a number of languages. In the standalone novels, Steven has also described the beauty and essence of the ancient city of Rome. The Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series written by Steven is set in the ancient Rome during the time of Cicero, Cleopatra, Sulla and Julius Caesar. At the university, he had enrolled himself in the subjects of history and classics.

Steven was born on Main Port Lavaca, Texas, United States and went on to graduate from the University of Texas, Austin. He began his writing career in the year 1990 when his debut novel was published under the title of Roman Blood. Most of the novels written by him have been translated into more than 20 languages all over the world. Apart from the historical novels, Steven has also written a few standalone novels in the contemporary genre. The anthologies of the gay erotic fiction written by him are published under the pseudonym of Aaron Travis. He is particularly famous for writing down the Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, which is full of famous Roman figures of historical importance as well as the main protagonist Gordianus the Finder. Steven Saylor is a renowned American author who has written a number of widely popular novels based on the historical fiction and gay erotic fiction genres.
