Stone, Irving (1903-1989), was an American biographer and novelist. His first important work was Lust for Life (1934), a novel about the painter Vincent van Gogh. He also wrote The President’s Lady (1951), about President Andrew Jackson‘s wife; Love Is Eternal (1954), about Mary Todd Lincoln; and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), a story of Michelangelo‘s life.
Stone was born on July 14, 1903, in San Francisco. He died on Aug. 26, 1989.
