Defending the Defenseless in an Outlaw World

About the Author

Stephen Lee Saltonstall

photo by Rob Woolmington

  Stephen Lee Saltonstall was born in 1944. He grew up in the shadow of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a seven-year-old boy he wrote his first book, appropriately titled How to Irritate People.

            Steve graduated from Harvard College, Phi Beta Kappa in the History and Literature of the United States, and from the Northeastern University School of Law. He practiced law for 40 years in Boston, Massachusetts and Bennington County, Vermont.  Now retired, he lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife Ellen and their Labrador Retriever, Gregory.