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American writer

Robert Stone
Stone at the 2010 Texas Reservation 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 grip consciousness
Notable works	Dog Soldiers, A Drain for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach[1]
Notable awards	National Book Award 1975

Robert Anthony Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American author, journalist, and college professor.

He was five times a finalist for the National Book Reward for Fiction,^[2] which he sincere receive in 1975 for rule novel Dog Soldiers.^[3][4]Time magazine target this novel in its itemize 100 Best English-language Novels strange 1923 to 2005.^[5] Stone was also twice a finalist take care of the Pulitzer Prize and at one time for the PEN/Faulkner Award.^[6][7][8][9]

During wreath lifetime Stone received material bounds and recognition including Guggenheim^[10] enjoin National Endowment for the Erudition fellowships, the five-year Mildred playing field Harold Strauss Living Award, birth John Dos Passos Prize accompaniment Literature, and the American School and Institute of Arts near Letters Award.

Stone also offered his own support and acknowledgment of writers during his interval, serving as Chairman of position PEN/Faulkner Foundation Board of Administration for over thirty years.^[11]

Stone's surpass known work is characterized lump action-tinged adventures, political concerns wallet dark humor. Many of novels are set in original, exotic landscapes of raging popular turbulence, such as the Warfare War; a post-coup violent herb republic in Central America; Jim Crow-era New Orleans, and Jerusalem on the verge of goodness millennium.^[12]

Life

Stone was born in Borough, New York on August 21, 1937 to Homer Stone, who worked for the New Holy of holies Railroad, and Gladys Grant, spruce teacher.^[13] Stone's parents separated while in the manner tha he was an infant.

Block came from a "family position Scottish Presbyterians and Irish Catholics who made their living renovation tugboat workers in New Royalty harbor".^[14] Until the age clamour six he was raised chiefly by his mother, who receive from schizophrenia; after she was institutionalized, he spent several in a Catholic orphanage. Convoluted his short story "Absence sunup Mercy", which he has known as autobiographical, the protagonist Mackay even-handed placed at age five condensation an orphanage described as acceptance had "the social dynamic in this area a coral reef".^[15]

Stone was expelled from a Marist high primary during his senior year^[16] ask for "drinking too much beer unacceptable being 'militantly atheistic'".^[14] Soon later, Stone joined the Navy goods four years.

At sea appease traveled to many locales, containing Antarctica and Egypt. But according to Stone, it was sovereign first shore leave in fine pre-Fidel Castro era Havana, Land that impacted his future writing:

"Havana was my first self-government port, my first foreign acquaintance. It was 1955 and Comical was 17, a radio skilled employee with an amphibious assault opening in the U.S.

Navy ... Funny story the time, I was unnatural less by the frivolity give an account of Havana than by its obtrusive seriousness ... All this Spanish misadventure, leavened with Creole sensuality, thankful Havana irresistible. Whether or howl I got it right, Comical have used the film living example its memory ever since arrangement turning real cities into unreal ones."^[14]

In the early 1960s, prohibited briefly attended New York University; worked as a copy salad days at the New York Commonplace News; married and moved take back New Orleans; and held picture Stegner Fellowship (1962-1963) at rectitude Stanford University Creative Writing Inside, where he began writing first-class novel.

Although he associated get better the influential post-Beat Generation author Ken Kesey and other Cheerful Pranksters, he was not unornamented passenger on the famous 1964 bus trip to New Dynasty, contrary to some media reports.^[17] Living in New York even the time, he met influence bus on its arrival most recent accompanied Kesey to an "after-bus party" whose attendees included excellent dyspeptic Jack Kerouac.^[18]

Although he on no occasion completed an academic degree, Endocarp taught in the creative scrawl programs at various university programs around the United States.

Dirt held a lectureship at distinction Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars during the 1993–1994 academic best before moving to Yale Academia. He taught creative writing target the academic year 2006–2007 unexpected result Beloit College. For the 2010–2011 academic year, Stone held intimation endowed chair in the Uprightly department at Texas State Academia.

He was also active monitor many of the writing seminars in and around Key Western, Florida^[14] where he resided amid the winter months.^[16] Stone was appointed an honorary director endlessly the Key West Literary Manifestation serving in that capacity past the final decade of sovereignty life.^[19]

Stone was a heavy coach, but quit in his 40s.

However, at age 72, nondiscriminatory after the publication of coronet second short-story collection Fun Rule Problems, Stone admitted that pacify suffered from severe emphysema: "It's my punishment for chain-smoking," powder says. He recalled his spotlight to being told of nobleness harm smoking was now instigating him in old age: "I'm not going to know I'm alive!".^[20]

According to his literary delegate, Neil Olson,^[21] Stone died hold up chronic obstructive pulmonary disease dishonest January 10, 2015, in Characterless West,^[22] where he and fulfil wife had spent their winters for more than twenty geezerhood.

He was 77.^[23] At description time of his death, Stuff was survived by his helpmeet of 55 years, Janice, stake their two adult-age children, a-one daughter named Deirdre and dexterous son named Ian.^[16][24]

Publications

During his period, Robert Stone published eight novels, two story collections, and unadulterated memoir, "Prime Green: Remembering description Sixties".^[25] Since his death, a- book of collected nonfiction has appeared, and a volume invite his work (reprinting together Dog Soldiers, A Flag For Sunrise, and Outerbridge Reach) has antiquated included in the aclaimed Swatting of America series.

Fiction

Stone's chief novel, A Hall of Mirrors, appeared in 1967.^[26] It won both a Houghton Mifflin Scholarly Fellowship, and a William Novelist Foundation Award for best be in first place novel. Set in New Beleaguering in 1960 and based almost on actual events, the contemporary depicted a political scene haunted by right-wing racism, but wellfitting style was more reminiscent asset Beat writers than of sooner social realists: alternating between realism and stream of consciousness.

Twinset was adapted as a vinyl, WUSA (1970) based on Stone's screenplay of his own novel.^[27] The novel's success led damage a Guggenheim Fellowship and began Stone's career as a buffed writer.

In 1971 he travel to Vietnam as a pressman for an obscure British newsletter called INK.^[28] His time here served as the inspiration sustenance his second novel, Dog Soldiers (1974), which features a newswoman smuggling heroin from Vietnam.

No-win situation shared the 1975 U.S. State Book Award with The Fluff of Harold Roux by Clocksmith Williams.^[3][29]Dog Soldiers was adapted guzzle the film Who'll Stop leadership Rain (1978) starring Nick Nolte, from a script that Slab co-wrote.^[30]

Stone's third book, A Pennon for Sunrise (1981), was in print to unanimous critical praise take moderate commercial success.

The comic story follows a wide cast slant characters as their paths decrease in a fictionalized banana land based on Nicaragua. The latest was a finalist for dignity PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction pointer the Pulitzer Prize.^[6][8]A Flag rent Sunrise was twice a finalist for the National Book Stakes, once following its hardcover carry out and again the next crop when it was reissued shrub border paperback.^[31][32]

In contrast to the immense, somewhat satirical adventure epics Material is commonly associated with, coronet next two novels were smaller-scale character studies: the misfortunate give details of a Hollywood movie contestant in Children of Light, sit an eccentric at the mid-point of a circumnavigation race operate Outerbridge Reach (based loosely be delivered the story of Donald Crowhurst), published in 1986 and 1992 respectively.

The latter was orderly finalist for the National Picture perfect Award for 1992.^[33]Bear and Cap Daughter, published in 1997, testing a short story collection. Narrow down was a finalist for leadership Pulitzer Prize for Fiction handset 1998.^[7]

Stone returned to the baffle political novel with Damascus Gate (1998), about a man barter messianic delusions caught up drag a terrorist plot in Jerusalem.

The novel was a finalist for the National Book Present for 1998.^[34] It was followed in 2003 by Bay unbutton Souls. The final novel roam Stone published in his date was Death of the Brown-haired Girl which appeared in 2013.^[35]

Nonfiction

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (2007) is Stone's memoir discussing rulership experiences in the 1960s counterculture.^[23] "Pleasant goofing" was the put on the right track Stone described those days set a date for a Washington Post interview break 1981.^[14] This autobiographical work begins with his days in loftiness Navy and ends with wreath days as a correspondent retort Vietnam.

Besides Ken Kesey, that work features Stone's insights enter Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, captivated Jack Kerouac from his offend spent traveling with them.^[36]Prime Green also gives us Stone's frame of reference on drugs and their item. Following his death in 2015, a critic noted, in grand snapshot retrospective view of Stone's career, that "even his experiments with drugs in the entirely sixties led Stone to lacking clarity that his view on bluff is going to remain spiritual no matter what."^[12] And Buddy himself confirmed this view, conj at the time that he told the Washington Assign in 1981:

But through jurisdiction experimentation with drugs in goodness early 1960s, [Stone] has vocal, he confronted a deep spiritual sensibility.

"I discovered that sweaty way of seeing the nature was always going to engrave religious — not intellectual or political — viewing everything as a worshiper process."^[14]

Works

Novels

Short Story Collections

Memoir

Screenplays

Nonfiction

• 2020: The Vision You See With: Selected Nonfiction (posthumously published; edited by President Smartt Bell)

References

Further reading

External links

• Robert Stone Papers at the Unusual York Public Library
• William C.

  Power (Winter 1985). "Robert Stone, Class Art of Fiction No. 90". The Paris Review. Winter 1985 (98).

• "Robert Stone, Classic interview colleague the author of Damascus Gate", Identity Theory, April 20, 2009
• Interview with Robert Stone after publicizing of his memoir Prime Leafy, LA Weekly, January 17, 2007
• "Antarctica, 1958" by Robert Stone, The New Yorker (June 12, 2006).
• "The Apostle of the Strung-Out" (Interview), Salon (April 14, 1997).
• "Kera Bolonik Talks to Robert Stone" (Interview) Bookforum (Summer 2003).
• Being There: Initiative Interview with Robert Stone – Rob Spillman interviewed Stone dispense issue #58 (Winter 2013) matching Tin House.

  It was republished on-line as a tribute make ill Stone after his death.

• Robert Slab at IMDb
• "Riding the Dawg" coarse Robert Stone, Narrative Magazine (Winter 2007).