Irving Stone
Irving Stone (July 14, 1903 – Aug 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals. He wrote plays and supported himself by writing detective stories until the publication o
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Irving Stone (July 14, 1903 – Aug 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals. He wrote plays and supported himself by writing detective stories until the publication of Lust for Life, his first novel, in 1934, about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo. Stone called his work 'bio-history' and based his novels on meticulous and extensive research into the lives of the historical characters at the heart of his novels. He founded the Academy of American Poets in (1962).
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