Robert Stone (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 21, 1937, the son of Gladys Catherine Grant, an elementary school teacher of Scotch-Irish origins whose schizophrenia profoundly affected her son's vision of himself and his world (he often mentions the fear of chaos his life with her instilled in him), and C. Homer Stone, a former railway detective who fled domestic responsibilities shortly after Robert's birth. Because of his mother's illness, young Robert spent time in an orphanage and in a series of Catholic boarding schools (including St. Ann's Marist...
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