Lust for Life author Irving Stone dead at 86 Final Edition
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Author [Irving Stone], the pioneer of the biographical novel who wrote the popular epics Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy and Love is Eternal, has died at age 86. His fictionalized portraits include Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy, Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for L...
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| Published in | The Ottawa citizen (1986) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Ottawa, Ont
Postmedia Network Inc
28.08.1989
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| Summary: | LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Author [Irving Stone], the pioneer of the biographical novel who wrote the popular epics Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy and Love is Eternal, has died at age 86. His fictionalized portraits include Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy, Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life, Jack London in Sailor on Horseback, Abraham and Mary Lincoln in Love is Eternal, Sigmund Freud in The Passions of the Mind, Charles Darwin in The Origin, Andrew and Rachel Jackson in The President's Lady, and Eugene Debs in Adversary in the House. Lust for Life allowed Stone and Factor to marry, and she has been his editor ever since. For 55 years they had been associated with Doubleday and Co., one of the houses that initially rejected Lust for Life. |
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| ISSN: | 0839-3222 |