The Postmaster General
Stephen Games started EnvelopeBooks in London in 2020 as a spin-off from Booklaunch, the quarterly digest of new books which he had founded in 2018.
EnvelopeBooks was originally meant to help Booklaunch readers get their own books published, but now works with writers from all around the world.
Stephen came to publishing after a lifetime reflecting on the creative arts. A former architecture correspondent for The Guardian, documentary maker for the BBC and opinion writer for the Los Angeles Times, he studied Graphic Design at London’s Central School of Art, and Architecture at the University of Cambridge.
He has taught as an adjunct professor for Temple University, Philadelphia, and Boston University and, in England, the University of Kent in Canterbury. He has a PhD from Cambridge University for research into the work of the German architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, about whom he has published four books, and has produced another four books on the writings of Sir John Betjeman, the conservation campaigner and UK poet laureate.
He is a Freeman of the City of London and sponsors, through Booklaunch, the annual Architectural Book Awards scheme.
