biography
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Stone, Irving
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originally Irving Tennenbaum
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–89)
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| biography:
| Popular novelist and playwright, born in San Francisco, California, USA. He studied at the universities of California, Berkeley, and Southern California. He is sometimes credited with creating the non-fiction novel, starting with Lust for Life (1934), based on the life of Van Gogh, which became a best-seller. His other works include The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), which fictionalizes the life of Michelangelo, and Passions of the Mind (1971), about Sigmund Freud. |
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