Author: Irving Stone
Narrator: Steve West
Unabridged: 19 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 03/06/2012
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Irving Stone was born in San Francisco on July 14, 1903. He wrote several books in a genre that he coined the "biographical novel," which recounted the lives of well-known historical figures. In these novels, Stone interspersed biography with fictional narrative on the psychology and private lives of his subjects. He also wrote biographies of Clarence Darrow and Earl Warren, and short biographies of men who lost presidential elections. He died on August 26, 1989.
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