Stone, Robert [Anthony]
Stone, Robert [Anthony]( 1937– ),Brooklyn-born novelist, after service in the navy (1955–58) studied a year at New York University and another at Stanford before beginning to write. His works are A Hall of Mirrors (1967), a dark, intense story set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, which is seen as a shocking nightmare; Dog Soldiers (1974, National Book Award), another view of a corrupt world, this one of drug dealing from Vietnam to California; A Flag for Sunrise (1982), a dramatic tale with political and philosophic views of a Latin American country undergoing revolution in the post-Vietnam era; Children of Light (1986), about a love affair between a screenwriter and a film actress; and Outerbridge Reach (1992), about a boat salesman failing in a marriage and in a round-the-world race in which he cheats, then commits suicide.
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