A prolific, best-selling author whose entertaining biographical novels and "biohistories" have proved far more popular with readers than with scholars or critics, Irving Stone is best known for works that, in the words of one critic, are...

Irving Stone (July 14 1903 San Francisco, California – August 26 1989) was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities. Some of Stone's important works in this category...

Irving Stone, 86, the immensely successful pioneer of the biographical novel whose bestsellers included such works as "Lust for Life" and "The Agony and the Ecstasy," died Aug. 26 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a heart attack. Mr. Stone's first...

Irving Stone Greeting card CEO Wednesday, January 19, 2000 Cleveland -- Irving Stone, who started working in his family's greeting card business at age 5 and helped transform it into American Greetings Corp., one of the world's largest card-makers, died Monday....

Any museum that devotes an exhibition to the neo-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is guaranteed boffo box office receipts. Few artists have achieved as much posthumous celebrity or, rather, had it thrust upon them. Myth has all but engulfed the man. Van Gogh’s sister-in-law,...

In a steamy Tennessee courtroom in July 1925, Clarence Darrow seemed to face a setback from which he couldn't save his case. He was there to defend John Scopes, a teacher who made himself a test case for a state law making it a crime...