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3 unusual facts about Robert Stone


Robert Stone

Robert L. Stone (1922–2009), former chief executive of The Hertz Corporation

Robert King Stone (1822–1872), doctor who served U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War

The Best American Short Stories 1992

The Best American Short Stories 1992 is a volume in The Best American Short Stories series edited by Robert Stone.


Dim Gray Bar Press

Subsequent works, handprinted in editions of usually 100 copies or less, included work by Martine Bellen, Wendell Berry, Eavan Boland, Guy Davenport, Sharon Dolin, Mark Doty, Jonathan Greene, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hudgins, Jim Harrison, James Laughlin, William Matthews, Gerald Stern, Robert Stone, Charles Tomlinson, Jonathan Williams and William Carlos Williams.

Jeremy Brooks

Writers like Ken Kesey, Robert Stone (a close friend of Brooks), Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegutt, spoke the language that people wanted to hear.


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