John Stevenson (10 May 1937 – 5 September 2023) was a British screenwriter who, between 1976 and 2006, was a regular writer on Britain's longest-running soap opera, Coronation Street.
He wrote for the Oldham Evening Chronicle from 1958 to 1964, and then worked as an entertainment journalist and theatre critic for the Daily Mail, based in Manchester.
[2][3] Stevenson moved into screenwriting after producer Peter Eckersley showed him a sitcom pilot entitled Her Majesty's Pleasure, and asked him to come up with story ideas.
[2] He co-wrote the popular comedy-drama Brass with Julian Roach in the 1980s[4] and in 1994, the sitcom, Mother's Ruin, starring Roy Barraclough.
[2] He married Myra Davies in 1985; they had three children and remained together until Stevenson's death, from complications of Alzheimer's disease, on 5 September 2023, at the age of 86.