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Robert Stone (novelist)
For other people with the same name, see Robert Stone.
American writer (1937 – 2015)
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Stone at the 2010 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | Robert Anthony Stone (1937-08-21)August 21, 1937 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 10, 2015(2015-01-10) (aged 77) Key West, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, journalist |
| Education | New York University |
| Literary movement | Naturalism, Stream of consciousness |
| Notable works | Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach[1] |
| Notable awards | National Book Award 1975 |
Robert Anthony Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist, journalist, and college professor.
He was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction,[2] which he did receive in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers.[3][4]Time magazine included this novel in its list 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[5] Stone was also twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Awar
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A Novelist’s Ambition to Define America
Books
Robert Stone set out to capture the national condition in fiction, a goal that’s more relevant than ever.
By George Packer
Robert Stone was one of those novelists who try to wrap their arms around America itself. His career spanned almost 50 years, but he never really stopped writing about the ’60s and their fallout—American power and virtue collapsing in an eruption of violence and drugs and moral chaos, under the 10,000-mile, decades-long shadow of Vietnam. In 1971, Stone contrived to get a London alternative weekly to send him to Saigon so that he could research a novel about the war that was consuming American life. “I realized if I wanted to be a ‘definer’ of the American condition, I would have to go to Vietnam,” he later said.
Stone’s America is a dark place, but its failures are commensurate with the scale of its aspirations. His protagonists—they can be roughly divided into seekers and ironists, each representing aspects of their creator—are haunted by a vision of life more abundant, a sense of possibility that’
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Robert Stone
Born
in Brooklyn, The United StatesAugust 21, 1937
Died
January 10, 2015
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Memoir
Influences
Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Stephen CraneRudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Stephen Crane...more
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ROBERT STONE was the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers (winner of the National Book Award), A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. His story collection, Bear and His Daughter, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and his memoir, Prime Green, was published in 2006.
His work was typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor.
A lifelong adventurer who in his 20s befriended Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, and what he called ‘‘all those crazies’’ of the counterculture, Mr. Stone had a fateful affinity for outsiders, especially those who brought hard times on themselves. Starting with the 1966 novel ‘‘A Hall of Mirrors,’’ Mr. Stone set hiROBERT STONE was the au
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