Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Irving Stone
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== Bibliography == === Fiction === * ''Pageant of Youth'' (1933) - Irving Stone's first novel, focussing on student Ray Sharpe at the fictional Stockley University in California, but which, in essence, is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's own undergraduate experience at Berkeley * ''[[Lust for Life (novel)|Lust for Life]]'' (1934) β [[Historical fiction|Historical novel]] based on the life of [[Vincent van Gogh]] * ''Sailor on Horseback'' (1938) - Historical novel based on the life of [[Jack London]] * ''False Witness'' (1940) - A novel set in a small farming community of Mission Valley, which inspired the 1941 movie Arkansas Judge starring Roy Rogers * ''[[Immortal Wife]]'' (1944) β Historical novel based on the life of [[Jessie Benton FrΓ©mont]] * ''[[Adversary in the House]]'' (1947) β Historical novel based on the life of [[Eugene V. Debs]] and his wife Kate, who opposed [[socialism]]<ref>Kate Debs seemed to have been so hostile to Debs's socialist activities β it threatened her sense of middle-class respectability β that novelist Irving Stone was led to call her, in the title of his fictional portrayal of the life of Debs, the ''Adversary in the House''. (Daniel Bell, ''Marxian Socialism in the United States'', footnote on page 88)</ref> * ''The Passionate Journey'' (1949) β Historical novel based on the life of American artist [[John Noble (painter)|John Noble]] * ''[[The President's Lady]]'' (1951) β Historical novel based on the life of American president [[Andrew Jackson]] and his marriage to [[Rachel Jackson|Rachel Donelson Jackson]] * ''Love is Eternal'' (1954) β Historical novel based on the marriage of [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Mary Todd]] * Men to Match My Mountains (1956) About the men who braved the wilderness to bring the nation to the far west * ''[[The Agony and the Ecstasy (novel)|The Agony and the Ecstasy]]'' β (1961) β Historical novel based on the life of [[Michelangelo]] * ''[[Those Who Love (novel)|Those Who Love]]'' (1965) β Historical novel based on the life of [[John Adams]] and [[Abigail Adams]] * ''[[Passions of the Mind|The Passions of the Mind]]'' (1971) β Historical novel based on the life of [[Sigmund Freud]] * ''The Greek Treasure'' (1975) β Historical novel based on the discovery of Troy by [[Heinrich Schliemann]] and his wife [[Sophia Schliemann|Sophia]] * ''[[The Origin (novel)|The Origin]]'' (1980) β Historical novel based on the life of [[Charles Darwin]] * ''Depths of Glory'' (1985) β Historical novel based on the life of [[Camille Pissarro]] ''Lust for Life'' and ''Immortal Wife'' were published as [[Armed Services Edition]]s during WWII. === Non-fiction === * ''Clarence Darrow For the Defense'' (1941) β biography of [[Clarence Darrow]] * ''[[They Also Ran]]'' (1943, updated 1966) β analysis of [[candidates]] for U.S. president who were defeated * ''Earl Warren'' (1948) β biography of [[Earl Warren]] * ''Men to Match My Mountains'' (1956) β account of the opening of the [[American Old West]], 1840β1900
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)