SP Grogan (Stephen Patrick Grogan) started his writing career early becoming Editor of the high school creative writing magazine and winning a $25 prize for his one act play on the Beatles. In college Stephen became editor of the Westminster Columns college newspaper in Fulton, Missouri, and later was co-founder of the Colorado University Perspective newspaper. He gained an A in Creative Writing during summer school at Harvard University. During another summer he worked in the Denver Post Library, alongside future mystery writer John Dunning. Stephen wrote rock music reviews. Writing about his high school experiences working in the oil fields of Wyoming he won the prestigious Shubert Fellowship in Playwriting at CU Boulder. He co-founded and was editor of the first underground newspaper in Denver, ‘The Teleidscopic Collage’. His first job out of college was as an account executive with a PR firm continuing his writing into the business world.

In 2008, he published his first novel, Vegas Die, about the murder of retired mobsters in Las Vegas with the Mayor the #1 suspect. Stephen gained recognition for this work because he wrote it as a ‘Quest Mystery’, leaving clues within the story which would lead a ‘Questor’ to find a dagger hidden somewhere in the Vegas Valley worth $25,000 when found and redeemed. The search for the dagger became a moderate national facination and book sales and the fan base was strong. Another Quest Mystery and hidden Hawaiian war club worth $5,000 appeared with the publication of “Captain Cooked” (2010).

In 2017 and 2020 UNLV Libraries Special Collections and archives established the Stephen P. Grogan Papers Collection (MS-00867) to house the business and creative writings of the author-businessman.

In January, 2019 academic publisher, Histria Books, decided to add fiction to its publishing goals and signed a contract with author Grogan to reprint all of his past catalogue of which the current novels are as follows:

Vegas Die, a Quest Mystery— hard cover, softcover & E-book (2020) republished Special 15th Anniversary Edition ISBN 978-1-59211-042-1 (won an IPPY Award for ‘Best Regional Fiction’) Also available in audio CD at Books In Motion.

Lafayette, Courtier to Crown Fugitive (2019) ISBN 978-1-59211-031-5

Captain Cooked, Hawaiian Mystery of Romance, Revenge (2020-2021) Special 10th Anniversary Edition ISBN 978-1-59211-065-0 (won 2 awards at 2022 Gourmand International Cookbook Awards, including ‘Best Food Novel’)

Atomic Dreams at the Red Tiki Lounge (2015, republished softcover August, 2023)

Cookbook Passion (also as ‘My Cookbook Passion’) by Pamela Kure Grogan (Edited by S.P. Grogan) Hardcover 2021, and Softcover 2023–Won ‘Special Award’ for Best in the World from Gourmand International Cookbook Awards in 2022 ISBN: 978-1-59211-117-6

Crimson Scimitar, Attack on America, 2001-2027, Including the Official Proceedings of the Capture & Trial of Osama bin Laden (originally published as “With Revenge Comes Terror”) Totally rewritten and republished September, 2023. ISBN 978-1-59211-331-6