Alfred Stephens
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Alfred Stephens (AG Stephens; August 28, 1865 - April 15, 1933) was an Australian miscellaneous writer and literary critic, notably for The Bulletin. He was appointed to that position by its owner, J. F. Archibald in 1894.
In about 1890 he was sub-editor of the journal Boomerang at Brisbane, which had been founded by William Lane in 1887. For ten years from 1896 Stephens edited The Bulletin's famous 'Red Page' reviews of literature which could either make or break the careers of many writers, for his reputation as a critic was without peer in Australia. Australian writer Henry Lawson often felt the sting of his pen, but Stephens was in fact one of his first literary champions. The Red Pagan, a collection of his criticisms from The Bulletin appeared in 1904, and a biography of Victor Daley in the same year. Stephens wrote a biography of poet Christopher Brennan.
