![]() ![]() ![]() Stone's fictionalized portraits include Jack London in "Sailor on Horseback," Abraham and Mary Lincoln in "Love is Eternal," Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy," Sigmund Freud in "The Passions of the Mind," Charles Darwin in "The Origin," Andrew and Rachel Jackson in "The President's Lady" and Eugene V. She said her husband had been working on a biographical novel before he was hospitalized, and she hoped it could be completed by someone else. ![]() "That will be his immortality - the books he left." "The only thing he ever wanted to do was write books, and that's what he did all his life, and we did it together," his wife and editor, Jean, said Sunday. Inc., Stone's publisher, estimates his books have sold more than 30 million copies. During the next half-century, he wrote a stream of best-selling biographical novels, including "The Agony and the Ecstasy."ĭoubleday & Co. ![]() His family said he had been receiving treatment for cancer there since July 24.With the 1934 epic "Lust For Life" about Van Gogh, Stone perfected the art form of telling history with a human focus. Stone died of heart failure late Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Irving Stone, whose pioneering biographical novels of Vincent Van Gogh, Mi- helangelo, Sigmund Freud and others brought history to life for millions, is dead. ![]()
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