Books By Robert Stone, Robert Stone, Library of America (Firm) - Author

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.

Madison Smartt Bell is professor of English at Goucher College and the author of fifteen novels, three collections of short stories, and five works of nonfiction. He is the author of Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone (working title), which will be published by Doubleday in March/April 2020, and the editor of The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction of Robert Stone (working title), also scheduled by Houghton Mifflin for March/April 2020.