Irving Stone

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Irving Stone (born July 14, 1903 in San Francisco ; † August 26, 1989 in Los Angeles ; born Irving Tennenbaum ) was an American writer who is best known as the author of historical biographical novels and thus, like Emil Ludwig , could achieve great success.

Life

Stone's parents divorced when he was seven years old, and he later took his stepfather's name. From 1920 he studied political science at the University of Berkeley , financed his studies as a saxophonist in a dance band. After graduating in 1923, he went on a scholarship to the University of Southern California , where he studied economics . He broke off a planned doctorate in 1926 and went to France, where he tried to be a playwright with little success.

A Van Gogh exhibition in the Rosenberg Gallery in Paris was a decisive experience for him: He began researching Van Gogh's life on site and meanwhile had to stay afloat in New York as a “Pulp Fiction” author. Stone initially unsuccessfully offered the extensive manuscript, completed in 1931, to 17 publishers. His wife Jean, they had married in 1934, edited his books and finally shortened the novel, whereupon it was accepted.

Stone's first publication was an unsuccessful novel about California student life. The book Lust for Life became his first best seller. For his biographies he often undertook intensive research over several years. Stone's estate in the archives of the University of California at Berkeley is still the starting point for Van Gogh research. The focus of his novels was often the personal relationships between the protagonists and their (spouses) partners.

Stone received an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern California . He lived in Beverly Hills , Los Angeles with his wife, Jean Stone , and they had two children.

He died on August 26, 1989 in Los Angeles.

Works

  • About Vincent van Gogh , the book is based on letters from van Gogh to his brother Theodor and was filmed in 1956 with Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh.
    • Lust for Life , New York, Grosset & Dunlap 1934
      • German: Vincent van Gogh. A life of passion. Berlin, Dt. Book Community, 1947
  • Again about van Gogh:
    • Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh . New York, Doubleday and Company, 1937
  • About the candidates who lost out in the US presidential election:
    • They Also Ran . New York, Doubleday 1943 (reprinted 1966)
  • About Chicago unionist Eugene V. Debs and his anti-socialist wife, Kate:
    • Adversary in the House , Garden City, NY, Doubleday 1947
      • German: Stranger in your own house . Berlin, Universitas Verlag 1950
      • or Live the dreams. Munich, Goldmann 1981
  • About the American artist John Noble:
    • The Passionate Journey . New York, Doubleday 1949
  • About Jessie Benton Fremont, the wife of American explorer and politician John Charles Fremont :
    • Immortal Wife, The biographical novel of Jessie Benton Fremont . New York, Doubleday 1944
      • dt. Immortal Woman: a biographical novel. Zurich, Rascher 1946
  • About Andrew Jackson and his wife:
    • The Presidents Lady . New York, Doubleday 1951
      • dt. Beyond death. Translated by Margarete Längfeld. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1979
  • Three Views of the Novel: 3 Lectures , (Library of Congress on January 7, 14, and 28, 1957) , Washington, Libr. Of Congr. [among others] 1957
    • Irving Stone: “ The Biographical Novel” from Three Views of the Novel (1957) In: Lacker, Michael [Ed.]: Biographical fiction: A Reader . London [et al.] Bloomsbury Academic 2017. pp. 115-130.
  • Regarding the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, here the "xanthippe picture" of Lincoln's wife should be corrected:
    • Love is Eternal , New York, Doubleday 1954
      • dt. Love is eternal. Mary and Abraham Lincoln, their life, their love and their time. Berlin, Ullstein 1996 .
  • About Michelangelo , the Irving couple lived in Italy for two years, was made into a film in 1965 with Charlton Heston as Michelangelo:
    • The Agony and the Ecstasy . Garden City, NY, Doubleday 1961
      • German Michelangelo. Stuttgart [u. a.], Dt. Book Association 1961
  • About Sigmund Freud :
    • The Passions of the Mind. New York, Doubleday 1971
      • dt. The dark paths of the soul . Munich, Knaur 1977
  • About Heinrich Schliemann :
    • The Greek Treasure. New York, Doubleday 1958
      • dt. The Greek treasure : The life of Sophia and Heinrich Schliemann . Munich [u. a.], Droemer Knaur, 1979
  • About Charles Darwin :
    • The Origin , New York, New American Library 1980
      • dt. Ways wonderful to creation . Munich, Knaur 1984
  • About the painter Camille Pissarro :
    • Depths of Glory . New York, Doubleday 1985
      • dt. The depths of fame. The novel of impressionism. Frankfurt a. M., Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1996
  • About the conquest of the west in the 19th century:
    • Men to match my mountains - the opening of the far west. New York, Doubleday & Co. 1956
  • About lawyer Clarence Darrow (biography):
    • For the defense . Garden City, NY, Doubleday 1941
  • About Earl Warren (biography):
    • Earl Warren, (A Great American Story), New York, Prentice Hall 1948
  • About John Adams and his wife Abigail:
    • Those Who Love. New York, Doubleday 1965
      • dt. Life belongs to lovers . Munich / Zurich, Droemer Knaur 1970
  • About Jack London :
    • Sailor on horseback. New York, Doubleday 1938
      • German. At sea and in the saddle. A Jack London biography. Frankfurt am Main, Gutenberg Book Guild 1949
  • About the early history of California (non-fiction):
    • From mud flat cove to gold to statehood - California 1840-1850. Clovis, Calif., Word Dancer Press 1999
  • About the University of Berkeley History (Non-Fiction):
    • There was light - autobiography of a university: Berkeley. New York, Doubleday 1970

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thilo Wydra: The thing with the ear. January 13, 2017, accessed December 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Albin Krebs: Irving Stone, Author of 'Lust for Life,' Dies at 86 . In: The New York Times . August 28, 1989, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 14, 2018]).
  3. ↑ CV Terry: Painter-Buckaroo; THE PASSIONATE JOURNEY. By Irving Stone. 337 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $ 3. In: The New York Times . September 25, 1949, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 16, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Irving
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tennenbaum, Irving (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1989
Place of death los Angeles