biography
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Stone, Robert (Anthony)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at New York University (1958–60) and at Stanford (1962–4). He worked for the New York Daily News as a copyboy and caption writer (1958–60), and held a variety of other jobs until he became a free-lance writer in England, California, and South Vietnam (1967–71). He taught at Princeton, Amherst, and Stanford, among other institutions, and is noted for his pessimistic but carefully crafted novels, such as Dog Soldiers (1974). He lived in California. |
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