Robert Stone
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- A Writer’s Beginnings, an audio interview, in Winter 2009
- Riding the Dawg, a memoir, in Winter 2007
- Prime Green, a narrative outloud - audio, in Winter 2012
- Prime Green, a reading - video, in Narrative Backstage
- 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.