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Biography

Name: Robert Anthony Stone
Birth Date: August 21, 1937
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Robert Anthony Stone
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Robert Anthony Stone (born 1937) was an American novelist whose preoccupations were politics, the media, and the random, senseless violence and cruelty that pervade contemporary life both in the United States and in parts of the world where United...
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Biography of Robert (Anthony) Stone
11,754 words, approx. 39 pages
The beginning of A. Alvarez's review of Robert Stone's fourth novel, Children of Light (1986), stands as the best concise summary of Stone's achievement that has yet been published: In just four novels in almost twenty years Robert Stone has...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Robert Stone Information
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Robert Stone (born August 21, 1937) is a critically well regarded American novelist, whose work is typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor. Stone was born in Brooklyn, New York. Until the age of six he was...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Q&A with Robert Stone
01/07/2007: 1,225 words, approx. 4 pages
ROBERT STONE, THE novelist and short-story writer, was not with Ken Kesey and the other Merry Pranksters when their bus steamed out of California in 1964 on its psychedelic journey east. But as Stone explains in his taut new memoir, Prime Green: Remembering the...
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The Boston Globe
Robert G. Stone Jr., A Fund-raising Stalwart For Harvard; At 83
04/25/2006: 788 words, approx. 3 pages
Robert G. Stone Jr., who served a record 27 years on Harvard University's governing board, had unparalleled gusto and talent for fund-raising, eagerly jetting off to woo potential donors wherever they could be found. But Mr. Stone didn't make time just for big...
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The New York Observer
Hollywood Babel On!
2/25/2007: 682 words, approx. 2 pages
Little Miss Sunshine If “the little movie that could … and might”5 takes the prize, it will be due to young Abigail Breslin: “they really ought to give it to the little, or not so little, girl”7 who was “the key in it”7. Many might...
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Investor's Business Daily
Chinese Manufacturer Works To Lower The Price Of Solar Energy
3/8/2007: 939 words, approx. 3 pages
The recent tremors from the Chinese stock market have shaken down many Chinese companies trading here in the U.S., including the fast-growing group that makes solar power components. One such was Trina Solar, which corrected to the tune of 25%.Yet analysts aren't too worried about...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Robert Stone, David Pink, and Chuck Lewis
6,759 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following interview, Stone discusses the creation and characters of Outerbridge Reach, his approach to writing, his moral, political, and artistic concerns, American poetry, the formal education of writers, and the difficulty of the writing life.
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Critical Essay by Robert S. Fredrickson
6,754 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Fredrickson examines Stone's presentation of cynical, disillusioned left-wing sympathizers and amoral leftist revolutionaries in his novels, particularly Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise.
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Critical Essay by James D. Bloom
6,401 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Bloom discusses Stone's intertextual commentary on the uses and abuses of literary art in Outerbridge Reach, Children of Light, and A Flag for Sunrise. Bloom contends that Stone's fiction, like that of authors Thom Jones, Marilynne Robinson, and Don DeLillo, addresses the problematic legitimacy and interpretation of canonic writings and creative idols when appropriated by artists, critics, and filmmakers as a form of cultural capital.
 


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