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Inspirational Quotes by Robert Stone (American Novelist)

Robert Stone (1937–2015,) fully Robert Anthony Stone, was an American author of fiction about individuals in conflict with their decaying late 20th-century Western societies—often chasing an American dream and inevitably doomed to failure.

Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Stone dropped out of high school and served in the U.S. Navy before attending New York (1958–59) and Stanford (1962–64) universities. He got a job with the 1960 census, going door to door, and he wrote advertising copy and newspaper articles and became friends with such writers as Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and the beatnik crowd.

Stone’s first novel, A Hall of Mirrors (1967,) revolves around a right-wing radio station in New Orleans and its messy “Patriotic Revival;” Stone adapted the book for the screenplay of the film WUSA (1970.) His second novel, Dog Soldiers (1974; 1975 National Book Award,) involves the legacy of corruption of the Vietnam War; and Stone co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978.)

In the late 1970s, Stone visited Central America, the backdrop of his novel A Flag for Sunrise (1981,) about four individuals in a corrupt destitute country ripe for revolution. Children of Light (1986) features a wicked screenwriter and a schizophrenic actress, both in decline. Stone’s fifth novel, Outerbridge Reach (1992,) was a well-received story of a foundering marriage and an around-the-world yacht contest.

Stone’s later works include Helping (1993,) Bear and His Daughters: Stories (1997,) Damascus Gate (1998,) and Fun with Problems (2010.) His final work is the psychological thriller Death of the Black-Haired Girl (2013.)

Stone’s memoir, Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (2007,) discusses his experiences in the 1960s counterculture.

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