Robert Stone (1937–2015) was born in Brooklyn. 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. He is the author of a short story collection and of numerous brilliant novels, including A Hall of Mirrors, which won the Faulkner Foundation Award; Dog Soldiers, winner of the National Book Award; and Death of the Black-Haired Girl.

A Writer’s Beginnings

An Audio Interview

    A Writer’s Life (00:34 preview)

“A Writer’s Life Preview”

Bob tells us about his life in writing, from his first job in New York writing copy at a “crummy ad agency” to the life-changing experience of getting into the Stanford Creative Writing Program. He talks of learning and teaching at Stanford and of the politics, dangers, and Technicolor splendor of California in the 1960s.

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