Career
He was also a poet, a lyricist for operas and musicals, and a playwright. His play, A Power of Dreams, was produced off-Broadway with Anne Meara of Stiller and Meara starred. He died of prostate cancer in Streatham, London.
His paternal great-great grandfather, Matthew Stephens, was a successful Welsh smuggler near Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Retaining his British citizenship, Peter John wrote articles for the British Information Service, Rockefeller Center, New York City. He was briefly married to the novelist, Henrietta Buckmaster, before Marcia Nichols Holden, a foster daughter of Harry Sidney Nichols, was a poet and editors
Her son from a previous marriage was Anton Holden, Emmy winning sound editor and the author of Prince Valium, Stein and Day, 1982 and Dolly Vardon, Boustrophedon Press, 2013. They had two children Dylan Stephens and Gillian Stephens, both musicians.
They had one child, Dilys Stephens, an artist.
