Stephen Hunter's father was Charles Francis Hunter, a Northwestern University speech professor who was murdered in 1975 by two male prostitutes.
11 Facts About Stephen Hunter
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Stephen Hunter's mother was Virginia Ricker Hunter, a writer of children's books.
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Stephen Hunter served in the 3rd US Infantry Regiment in Washington, DC, a unit that has both operational and ceremonial missions, the latter most notably being the guard force for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Stephen Hunter wrote for a military paper, the Pentagon News.
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Stephen Hunter joined The Baltimore Sun in 1971, working at the copy desk of the newspaper's Sunday edition for a decade.
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Stephen Hunter became its film critic in 1982, a post he held until moving to The Washington Post in the same function in 1997.
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In 1998 Stephen Hunter won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award in the criticism category, and in 2003 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
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Stephen Hunter accepted a buyout from the Post in 2008.
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Stephen Hunter is a firearms enthusiast, well known in the gun community for firearm detail in many of his works of fiction.
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Stephen Hunter said that it was not clear whether the 33-round magazine used by shooter Jared Lee Loughner played a part in the shooting.
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Stephen Hunter had previously written in The Washington Post that extended magazines are particularly valuable to women and the elderly, who he said could use them effectively as an alternative to semi-automatic rifles or shotguns.