Robert Stone (1937–2015) was born in Brooklyn. The child of a schizophrenic mother, he spent several years in a Catholic orphanage, finally dropping out of high school to become a navy journalist. Later he studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford University and traveled with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. He is the author of a short story collection and of numerous brilliant novels, including A Hall of Mirrors, which won the Faulkner Foundation Award; Dog Soldiers, winner of the National Book Award; and Death of the Black-Haired Girl (2013).

Prime Green

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Long before Robert Stone became a National Book Award–winning novelist, he tried selling encyclopedias in rural Louisiana, only to be arrested on suspicion of being an outside agitator. Regrouping from that calamity, he pondered joining a traveling theatrical troupe putting on a Christ play. In March 2009, at our Narrative Night in San Francisco, Bob gave a hilarious and moving reading of youthful tales, included in his memoir Prime Green.

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