Robert Stone Has Died

By Maryann Yin 

Robert StoneAuthor Robert Stone has died. He was 77-years-old.

Throughout his published career, Stone penned eight novels, two story collections, and one memoir. Besides writing, he also served as a Navy man and as a correspondent during the Vietnam War.

Here’s more from The New York Times: “In muscular, observant prose, he wrote largely in the realistic mode, though he was not averse to hallucinatory or surreal passages at climactic moments with his characters in extremis. His books resonate with philosophical concerns, the thin divides between life and death, good and evil, God and godlessness, reflecting Mr. Stone’s own grappling with spiritual matters, dating from his childhood, when he grew up partly in a Roman Catholic orphanage. He rebelled, but never outgrew his hunger for some kind of ethereal nourishment.”