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Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist.
He was a finalist for the Prize twice. Pulitzer and once from the Prize PEN/FaulknerStone was a five-time finalist in the National Book Prize for Fiction, which he received in 1975 for his novel Dog weldersThe magazine Team included this novel on his list. TIME 100 Best Novels in English from 1923 to 2005. Dog welders It was adapted into a film. Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), starring Nick Nolte, from a screenplay that Stone co-wrote.
Throughout his life, Stone received material support and recognition, including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities, the five years Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Prizethe John Dos Passos of Literature and the American Academy and Arts and Letters Institute AwardStone also offered his own support and recognition to writers during his lifetime, serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation. PEN/Faulkner for more than thirty years.
Stone's best-known work is characterized by action-adventures, political concerns, and dark humor. Many of his novels are set in unusual and exotic landscapes of social turmoil, such as the Vietnam War; a violent post-coup banana republic in Central America; Jim Crow era New Orleans; and Jerusalem on the cusp of the millennium.