Stevenson was "a socially conscious novelist and playwright who was an active participant in Santa Fe, New Mexico's art colony.
His Sure Fire: Episodes in the Life of Billy the Kid, written for the 1931 Fiesta, was long remembered.
Like many others in the 1930s, Stevenson was attracted to Communism as a solution to the devastating economic problems of that era.
After leaving Santa Fe about 1939, he wrote screenplays in Hollywood and continued to write plays and novels, including a trilogy of novels published under the pseudonym, Lars Lawrence.
[1] His home in Santa Fe, at 408 Delgado Street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in the Camino del Monte Sol Historic District.