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Robert Stone, the American novelist, is an ex-Navy man who was born in 1937 in Brooklyn. His novels often include characters who are outsiders or who seek ways out through drugs, murder or infidelity. Politics are always part of the story. He is interested in religion and philosophy, particularly French existentialism and Eastern metaphysics. Stanford University awarded him the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the 1960s. His first novel, 'Hall of Mirrors,' won the William Faulkner Award in 1967 and his second, 'Dog Soldiers' won the National Book Award in 1975. His fifth novel, 'Outerbridge Reach,' published in 1992, is about the Donald Crowhurst story of using false coordinates in a sailing competition.
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Considerable mystery continues to surround US novelist Thomas Pynchon. He has not permitted a photograph of himself to be published for many years, and refuses to give interviews or readings. His attitude may have been influenced by the fact that he published his first novel at the same time as there was great media interest in novelist JD Salinger, who has also been very secretive. It may also have been influenced by the political slant of his novels, especially his early works, where there is a strong atmosphere of pre-apocalyptic paranoia. However, he is now receiving considerable exposure on the Internet.
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Richard Yates was an American post-war novelist and short story writer. He was Bobby Kennedy's speechmaker in 1962. He taught in the University of Alabama in 1991. He suffered from emphysema for ten years until he died in 1992 aged 66. His books are emotional. 'Revolutionary Road' was successful but he could not live on the proceeds and taught creative writing until his editor Seymour Lawrence gave him a regular salary. He then produced six books in 11 years.
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