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Robert Anthony Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist, journalist, and college professor. He was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction , [2] which he did receive in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers .
Jan 11, 2015 · Robert Stone, who wrote ambitious, award-winning novels about errant Americans in dangerous circumstances or on existential quests — or both — as commentary on an unruly, wayward nation in the...
Robert Stone was an American author of fiction about individuals in conflict with the decaying late 20th-century Western societies in which they live. Stone served in the U.S. Navy before attending New York (1958–59) and Stanford (1962–64) universities.
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Jan 10, 2015 · Starting with the 1966 novel ‘‘A Hall of Mirrors,’’ Mr. Stone set hi. ROBERT STONE was the author of seven novels: A Hall of Mirrors, Dog Soldiers (winner of the National Book Award), A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls.
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- January 10, 2015
- August 21, 1937
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Stone, the award-winning novelist who spun out tales of seekers, frauds and other misbegotten American dreamers in such works as “A Flag for Sunrise” and “Dog Soldiers,” died Saturday at age 77.
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Robert Stone ‘s first novel, A Hall of Mirrors, won a William Faulkner Foundation Award. Dog Soldiers received a National Book Award, and A Flag for Sunrise won both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Jan 13, 2015 · He won the National Book Award in 1975 for his novel "Dog Soldiers." Over the weekend, Robert Stone died at his home in Key West, Florida, at 77 years old. NPR's Petra Mayer has this remembrance.
