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...

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...

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings has left the Met, and not a moment too soon. Am I the only New Yorker happy that the tempestuous Dutchman has hit the road? Whenever the Van Gogh name gets onto a museum marquee, you’re guaranteed an...

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings has left the Met, and not a moment too soon. Am I the only New Yorker happy that the tempestuous Dutchman has hit the road?Whenever the Van Gogh name gets onto a museum marquee, you’re guaranteed an environment bereft of...