Philip John Stead OBE, FRSL (5 February 1915 – 22 June 2005), was an English criminologist, author, literary critic, translator and poet.
During World War II, he served in the British Army in North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium and Germany.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950 and was appointed to the National Police College at Bramshill House in 1953.
In 1971 he took sabbatical leave to teach at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
[1] He finally retired in 1982 and moved to Hyannis, Massachusetts and then South Yarmouth where he wrote poetry and took up amateur dramatics.