Template:Realworld Stephen Edward Poe (1937 – 6 January 2000 of leukemia) was a successful author. He occasionally wrote under the name Stephen E. Whitfield, his stepfather's surname.
In 1968, under the name Stephen E. Whitfield, he published The Making of Star Trek, a book he wrote with Gene Roddenberry. For many years, this was the only book on the production of Star Trek.
Thirty years later, he published his second Star Trek book, A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager
He worked with Alcoholics Anonymous, compiling A Concordance to Alcoholics Anonymous (published in 1990) with his wife Francis.