Robert Stone (novelist)

For other people with the same name, see Robert Stone.

Robert Stone
Stone at the 2010 Texas Book Festival
Stone at the 2010 Texas Book Festival
BornRobert Anthony Stone
(1937-08-21)August 21, 1937
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 10, 2015(2015-01-10) (aged 77)
Key West, Florida, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, journalist
EducationNew York University
Literary movementNaturalism, Stream of consciousness
Notable worksDog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach[1]
Notable awardsNational 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 Award.[6][7][8][9]

During his lifetime Stone received material support and recognition including Guggenheim[10] and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, the five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Stone also offered his own support and recognition of writers during his lifetime, serving as Chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Board of Directors for over thirty years.[11]

Stone's best known work is characterized by action-tinged adventures, political concerns and dark humor. Many of his novels are set in unusual, exotic landscapes of raging social turbulence, such as the Vietnam War; a post-coup violent banana republic in Central America; Jim Crow-era New Orleans, and Jerusalem on the verge of the millennium.[12]

  1. ^ "Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach | Library of America".
  2. ^ the five finalists: Dog Soldiers in 1975; A Flag for Sunrise was nominated twice for the NBA, in 1982 (hardcover) & 1983 (paperback); Outerbridge Reach in 1992; and Stone's final NBA finalist nomination was in 1998 for Damascus Gate
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  4. ^ "A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone".
  5. ^ "All Time 100 Novels". Time. October 16, 2005. Archived from the original on October 19, 2005.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference pulitzer1982 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  9. ^ William James (May 30, 2010). "Robert Stone | Author". Big Think. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  10. ^ "Robert A. Stone – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  11. ^ "Episode 39 – A Remembrance of Robert Stone | PEN / Faulkner Foundation". Archived from the original on February 6, 2015.
  12. ^ "Robert Stone's Life and Death". ThePensters.com.