Stone, Irving - Stone, Irving 1903–
Stone, Irving 1903–
Stone is an American author of "bio-histories"—popular novels which recreate history through the lives of an era's prominent figures. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
A writer is peculiarly fortunate when he discovers, reasonably early, both a principle and a pattern to which he may hew. Irving Stone made that happy discovery before he was thirty, which, as such things go, is early enough. Still better, by the time he found out in what direction his writing talents were best fulfilled he had developed two habits of mind that were to have the greatest bearing upon his success. He had become accustomed to the practice of a relentless, unflagging industry. And it was automatic with him never to be wholly satisfied with what he had done. Both attitudes persist in him to this day.
The book that gave direction to his career was his Lust For Life, an intimate and sympathetic study of the...
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