Robert Stone (1937–2015) was born in Brooklyn. The child of a schizophrenic mother, he spent several years in a Catholic orphanage, finally dropping out of high school to become a navy journalist. Later he studied with Wallace Stegner at Stanford University and traveled with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. He is the author of a short story collection and of numerous brilliant novels, including A Hall of Mirrors, which won the Faulkner Foundation Award; Dog Soldiers, winner of the National Book Award; and Death of the Black-Haired Girl.


ROBERT STONE and
KATE CHOPIN FEATURE

The Lost Screenplay

Children of Light

The Awakening

By Hand

Fiction in Manuscript

by Robert Stone

THE AUTHOR’S NOTEBOOKS reveal the insertions, deletions, queries, and corrections he made in the course of creating his novel Children of Light and, within it, the screenplay version of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening. Stone deleted it from the novel prior to publication, instead choosing to let his depiction of the filming convey the drama of the screenplay.
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