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Robert Stone was born in Brooklyn in 1937 and grew up on the West Side of Manhattan. He served in the U.S. Navy and briefly as a journalist in Vietnam. His first novel A Hall of Mirrors won the William Faulkner Foundation Award, Dog Soldiers received the National Book Award, A Flag for Sunrise won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His most recent books are Children of Light, Outerbridge Reach, a short story collection, Bear and his Daughter, and Damascus Gate. Robert Stone lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Key West, Florida.