![]() Irving and Lona Stone returned to the United States in the 1930s from Europe, where he had been researching Van Gogh for six months. On money provided by her father, Los Angeles businessman Ernest Mosk, the young couple went to Paris. He met his first wife, Lona Mosk (1905–1965), who was a student at the university. there, he worked as a teaching assistant in English. In 1923, Stone received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. From then on, he believed that education was the only way to succeed in life. Stone said his mother instilled a passion for reading in him. He legally changed his last name to "Stone", his stepfather's surname. ![]() ![]() By the time he was a senior in high school, his mother had remarried. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo.īorn Irving Tennenbaum in San Francisco, he was seven when his parents divorced. Irving Stone (born Tennenbaum, J– August 26, 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. ![]()
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