[9] Amidon has written two non-fiction books: The Sublime Engine with his brother Tom, a cardiologist,[10] and Something Like the Gods [11] which is dedicated to his son, Alexander, a first-team, all-ACC wide receiver for the Boston College football team.
[12][13] In 2023, Wendy Smith of The Washington Post wrote, "Over the past three decades, Stephen Amidon has produced a series of novels as compulsively readable as they are hard-edged about such uncomfortable facts of American life as race, class and money.
"[14] Stephen Amidon sold his first work of fiction in 1989, when the short story "Echolocation" was chosen by Ian Hamilton for inclusion in the Bloomsbury anthology Soho Square II.
[27] An American version of Human Capital, directed by Marc Meyers, adapted by Oren Moverman, and starring Liev Schreiber, Alex Wolff, Marisa Tomei, and Maya Hawke, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
[28] January 2020, filming began in Italy on an adaptation of Amidon's novel Security, directed by Peter Chelsom, and starring Marco D'Amore, Valeria Bilello, and Fabrizio Bentivoglio.