Stuart lived in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s,[REF] working as an actor[REF] ("his only role of interest was a bit part in "The Godfather Part II," playing an American soldier back from World War II"),[REF] musician and in a colour photo lab [REF].
Philippe Garnier, writing in Libération in 2002 said of Stuart's publications by Taschen, "Roy Stuart is quickly becoming a locomotive for this atypical editor."[REF][REF] .