Stone, Irving
STONE, IRVING
STONE, IRVING (1903–1989), biographer and novelist. After he had written a number of plays, Stone interested himself in biography and produced a number of very successful works, including Lust for Life (1934), on Vincent Van Gogh; The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) as well as other books about Michelangelo; Lincoln, A Contemporary Portrait (1962); and The Passions of the Mind (1971), about Freud. His other well-known works include They Also Ran (1943), Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941), Earl Warren (1948), and Those Who Love (1965). He also edited Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh (1937).
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