Stephen Marche


Stephen Marche is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and cultural commentator. He is an alumnus of The University of King's College and of City College of New York. In 2005, he received a doctorate in early modern English drama from the University of Toronto. He taught Renaissance drama at CUNY until 2007, when he resigned in order to write full-time.

Career as writer

Marche is a contributing editor at Esquire, for which he writes a monthly column entitled "A Thousand Words about Our Culture". In 2011, this column was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors award for columns and commentary. Marche's articles also appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Walrus, The Guardian, and other publications. Marche is also a weekly contributor to CBC Radio.
Marche's novel Raymond and Hannah was published in 2005. An anthology of short stories linked by a common plot element, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, followed in 2007. How Shakespeare Changed Everything was published in 2011. Another novel, The Hunger Of The Wolf, was published in February 2015. Marche's take on the state of male–female relations in the 21st century, The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century, was published in March 2017 with contributions from his wife.
Marche wrote an opinion piece published by The New York Times on 14 August 2015 titled "The Closing of the Canadian Mind." In this article he was critical of Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, linking him with Rob Ford, former Mayor of Toronto who was involved in a crack cocaine scandal. Marche also published an opinion piece in The New York Times on 25 November 2017 titled "The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido," about the challenges and necessity of male engagement with feminism.

Personal life

Marche is married to Sarah Fulford, the editor-in-chief of Toronto Life magazine. He is the son-in-law of Robert Fulford. Marche has a son and daughter, and lives in Toronto.

Novels