Robert Stone
Novelist, Author
1937 –
Who is Robert Stone?
Robert Stone is an American novelist.
He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers and was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Awards. Dog Soldiers was adapted as a film, Who'll Stop the Rain in 1978 starring Nick Nolte, and Time magazine included it in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
He has also received Guggenheim 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.
His 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 late 1990's Jerusalem.
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- Born
- Aug 21, 1937
Brooklyn - Also known as
- R. Stone
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
(1958 - ) - Stanford University
- New York University
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
(1961 - ) - Westport
- Brooklyn
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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