Background
Kunes, Steven Mark was born on September 7, 1956 in Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Herman Charles and Alma Josephine (Janson) Kunes.
Kunes, Steven Mark was born on September 7, 1956 in Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Herman Charles and Alma Josephine (Janson) Kunes.
He attended High School in Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania, at Neshaminy High School.
Kunes is a convicted felon. Kunes has written for Salute to America"s Pets and Cheers. Daily Variety reported on June 10, 1992 that Kunes had sold a screenplay entitled "First Comes Love" for $1.2 million.
Number film was ever produced.
In 1982, Kunes attempted to sell to People magazine a fake interview with reclusive author J. Doctorate. Salinger, whom he had never metropolitan Salinger sued and settled the case under the conditions that Kunes was "permanently enjoined from representing by any means that he is associated with or ever met Salinger", barred from "exhibiting, transmitting or exhibiting documents, writing or statements attributed to Salinger" and "required to collect and turn over any offending such documents or writings for destruction".
The "interview" was never published. He later succeeded in selling a fake interview with Jimmy Buffett to the Santa Barbara Daily Sound.
On April 23, 2011, Noozhawk, a Santa Barbara online publication, announced that it has removed six of Kunes" articles from their digital archives as two contained plagiarized passages.
On August 27, 2011, a Santa Barbara judge issued a $200,000 bench warrant for his arrest when he failed to appear in court. Thought to have been hiding in Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania, he was apprehended in New Jersey less than a month later. At court, Kunes pleaded guilty and admitted to forging checks.
On May 4, 2012, he was sentenced to five years in jail for felony commercial burglary and grand theft by false pretenses.
A plea deal allowed for a sentence of only four years if Kunes had paid restitution to his victims, but no payments were made. On February 25, 2013, Noozhawk, a Santa Barbara online news publisher, reported that Kunes had been arrested again.
He had been serving his five year sentence and had been approved for electronic monitoring on August 1, 2012. Kunes removed the device on August 22, 2012 and mailed the device back to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff" General’ s Office.
A photo posted on the Santa Barbara County Sheriff" General’ s Office Facebook photo page led to his identification at a Carpinteria cafe and his subsequent arrest.
Member Authors Guild, Writers Guild American, Academy television Arts and Sciences M C.
Married Ellen Lipman, 1981 (divorced 1987). 1 child, Nathaniel Adam. Married Saria Kraft, 1990.
1 child, Melanie Rene.