Steven Rea

Early life Rea was born in London, and raised in New York City. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York. Rea went to the West Coast for college, earning an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He attended the Writers Workshop graduate program at the University of Iowa.

Career Rea has written for multiple publications since 1975, as well as working for major record labels such as Island Records. He hosts Talk Cinema events. He served on the Narrative Features jury of the 2012 Florida Film Festival and the FIPRESCI jury at the 2014 Palm Springs International Film Festival. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics (NSFC).

Rea is the author of Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling with the Stars (2012), an expansion on his blog featuring photos of stars riding bikes, in which Rea explores his obsession with the details of these images and stARS. It received good reviews from The Telegraph (UK) and the San Francisco Chronicle. He later published Hollywood Cafe: Coffee With The Stars (2016), which was favorably covered in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Metro US, and numerous other publications and websites. He is the curator of the Tumblr blog, Rides a Bike . His essay on the British New Wave is published in the book European Cinema (2012).

Additionally, Rea has worked as an editor and written fiction. and The New York Quarterly.

Personal life Rea lived in Los Angeles at the start of his career,