Robert Stone

Robert Stone (1937-2015) was born in Brooklyn and grew up in New York City. After being expelled from high school Stone enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served as a journalist. In the early 1960s he studied writing as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and became friends with Ken Kesey. His first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, was published in 1967; his second, Dog Soldiers (1974), won the National Book Award. Stone eventually published eight novels, two collections of short stories, and a memoir.