The Stones lived primarily in Los Angeles. Jean Stone died in 2004, aged 93.ĭuring their years together, Jean Stone edited many of his books. This later marriage lasted until Stone's death in Los Angeles in 1989. Stone began a relationship with his secretary, Jean Factor, and after he and Lona were divorced, he and Jean married. According to the Times, Lust for Life (the title suggested by his first wife) was rejected by seventeen publishers over three years before being published in 1934. As reported in the NY Times obituary of Stone on August 28, 1989, the Stones resided in New York's Greenwich Village where Irving finished Lust for Life, the biographical novel about Van Gogh that set his career in motion. Rey, who was the subject of a portrait painting by Van Gogh, became Stone's friend he confirmed that Van Gogh's whole ear was removed and not only the earlobe. Felix Rey, who had treated Van Gogh after the artist cut off his own ear in December 1888. 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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