Robert Stone

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

Riding the Dawg, a memoir, in Winter 2007
A Writer’s Beginnings, an audio interview, in Winter 2009
Prime Green, a narrative outloud - audio, in Winter 2012
Honeymoon, a narrative outloud - audio, in Spring 2010

Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937. The child of a schizophrenic mother, he spent several years in a Catholic orphanage, finally dropping out of high school to become a navy journalist. Later he studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford University and traveled with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. Stone’s first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won the Faulkner Foundation Award, and his second, Dog Soldiers, won the National Book Award. He is the author of five brilliant novels and a collection of short stories. Stone and his wife live in New York City.

Photograph by Marion Ettlinger.