Stephen Dafoe is the author of several books on the Knights Templar and the Freemasons. He is perhaps best known for the two books that he co-wrote with Alan Butler in the late 1990s. These books were The Warriors and the Bankers, re-published by Lewis Masonic in 2006 and The Knights Templar Revealed, re-published by Constable and Robinson in the same year.
Stephen has stepped away from the speculative style of his earlier books and concentrated on a more historical approach in recent years. His research has been published in The Scottish Rite Journal, Heredom (the Transactions of the Scottish Rite Research Society), Templar History Magazine and Masonic Magazine.
Dafoe's latest book, Nobly Born, is his fifth dealing with the history of the Knights Templar. Lewis Masonic published the book in October of 2007, coinciding with the 700th anniversary of the arrest of the Knights Templar in France.
Stephen has just completed another book on the Templars, which examines the evolution and development of Masonic Templarism. The book is called The Compasses and the Cross and is due from Lewis Masonic in September of 2008.
Dafoe was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1962 and spent the first 40 years of his life in that province. He moved to Alberta in November 0f 2002 and now resides in a rural community north of Edmonton.
His website is www.stephendafoe.com