Who is the subject of the 1961 biography 'The Agony And The Ecstasy' by Irving Stone?
"the War of the League of Cambrai. Preparing for battle and having reached the limits of his patience, the Pope terminates Michelangelo's contract. Raphael, impressed with the work in progress, asks Michelangelo to show humility and finish the ceiling. Michelangelo travels to see the injured and weakened Pope, and pleads for him to restore the patronage. Though the Pope believes an invasion of Rome is inevitable, he raises the money needed to resume work on the ceiling. One night, Michelangelo finds the ailing Pope inspecting the portrait of God in ""The Creation of Adam"", which the Pope declares ""a proof"
"well publicized meeting in October 1947. Dunne married the former Amanda Duff (1914-2006) on July 13, 1939. They had three children, Miranda, Philippa, and Jessica. In 1980, he published his memoirs, ""Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics"". Dunne died of cancer on June 2, 1992, in Malibu, California, aged 84. Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting: ""How Green Was My Valley"" (1941) and ""David and Bathsheba"" (1951). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"", as well as several peer awards from the"
"Last of the Just"" by André Schwarz-Bart. That book, a multi-generational saga translated from the French, spent 18 weeks slowly rising to the top, and spent 4 weeks there before being toppled by ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"". It continued among the top 15 best sellers for another 20 weeks. The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1961 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped ""The New York Times"" Fiction Best Seller list in 1961. The most popular titles of the year were ""Hawaii"" by ""James Michener"", ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"", by Irving Stone and"
"The Passions of the Mind The Passions of the Mind is a 1971 novel by American author Irving Stone. It is a biographical novel about the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud and covers his life from when he was a student to when he is forced to leave Austria to escape the growing influence of the Nazis. It covers many aspects of the subject's life, including his hospital work, his relationship with his parents, his marriage to Martha Bernays, and his support for his successor, Carl Jung. The book is notable for going into great detail of Freud's theories, especially the Oedipus"
"The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1961 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped ""The New York Times"" Fiction Best Seller list in 1961. The most popular titles of the year were ""Hawaii"" by ""James Michener"", ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"", by Irving Stone and ""Franny and Zooey"" by J.D. Salinger with respectively 12, 27 and 10 weeks at the top, ""Hawaii"" continuing from a very long run in 1960, and ""Franney and Zooey"" continuing into 1962 at the top of the list. The only other book to top the list that year was ""The"
"contained articles about the British economic conditions. Soon after, in 1939, he was asked to join the Ministry of Economic Warfare. The couple's marriage dissolved in 1940. Soon after, In 1941 Stone married his second wife Feodora Leontinoff. Feodora died in 1956. In 1960, he married Giovanna Saffi, great-grandchild of Italian patriot Aurelio Saffi, who became his partner in many of his works. They collaborated for some projects in economics, for example in rewriting his book ""National Income and Expenditure"" in 1961. Stone died on 6 December 1991 in Cambridge, aged 78. He was survived by his third wife Giovanna,"
"received the Pulitzer Prize. Alumna and professor Susan Rasky won the Polk Award for journalism in 1991. USC Professor and UC Berkeley alumna Viet Thanh Nguyen's (PhD 1997) first novel ""The Sympathizer"" won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Alumni have also written novels and screenplays that have attracted Oscar-caliber talent, including ""The Call of the Wild"" author Jack London. Irving Stone (BA 1923) wrote the novel ""Lust for Life"", which was later made into an Academy Award–winning film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh. Stone also wrote ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"", which was"
"Irving Stone during the latter's research for this novel, The Agony and the Ecstasy. In the late 1950s, he travelled with Stone to Italy, reproducing the sculptural tools and techniques Michelangelo used to help the novelist with his work of biographical fiction. Even though he was an avid world traveller, Lewis always returned to Montreal to his studio above Berson Monuments, a gravestone carving company on Saint-Laurent Boulevard, which he said was ""a constant reminder that we are mortal souls but our creations are timeless."" The studio was considered an important hub and meeting place for artists and up until"
"death of Socrates, ""The Trial of Socrates"", in which he argued that Socrates wanted to be sentenced to death in order to shame Athenian democracy, which he despised. ""The Trial of Socrates"" was a ""New York Times"" bestseller and was translated into 18 languages. In 1970 Stone received the George Polk Award, and in 1976 he received the Conscience-in-Media Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. In 1989, Stone died of a heart attack in Boston at the age of 81. Composer Scott Johnson makes extensive use of Stone's voice taken from a recorded 1981 lecture in his"
"six weeks before his death in October 2002 from pancreatic cancer. ""Soldiers and Slaves"", a companion book to the film, was published by Roger Cohen, ""New York Times"" and ""Herald Tribune"" columnists using research materials. Guggenheim married Marion Streett in 1957. They had three children: Davis, Grace, and Jonathan. Davis followed in his father's footsteps as a documentary filmmaker and won an Oscar for best documentary in 2007 for ""An Inconvenient Truth"". Guggenheim is recognized with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. The moving image collection of Charles Guggenheim is held at the Academy Film Archive. The"
"chaired a disciplinary committee following the protests of 1968. In 1978 he was named the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and was granted a senior fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1973-4. From 1979-80 he was a fellow at the National Humanities Center. He died of heart failure in 2003. He was known as an inspiring professor at Columbia. His book ""The Imperial Self"" (1971) was a widely heralded and debated account of the shaping of American identity as revealed by nineteenth-century American literature. Anderson lived at 29 Claremont Avenue. Anderson married Thelma Ehrlich in"
"Fear and Loathing in America Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968–1976 is a collection of hundreds of letters Hunter S. Thompson wrote (as well as a handful he received) after his rise to fame with his 1966 hit """". These letters deal primarily with Thompson and his editor at Random House, Jim Silberman, his correspondence with Oscar Zeta Acosta, and his perpetually fluctuating relationship with Jann Wenner, the founder of ""Rolling Stone"". Through this time period, Thompson discusses ""Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"", ""Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72"", and"
"""The First Stone"" ""still seems a brilliantly prescient book – in its complexity, in the tense torque of its self-argument, and in its very vulnerability and stunned intolerance"". The First Stone The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power is a controversial non-fiction book by Helen Garner about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne, which the author had attended in the 1960s. It was first published in Australia in 1995 and later published in the United States in 1997. The book revolves around Garner's attempts to interview"
"Hitchcock's ""Psycho"", and character actress Dana Ivey.) He became ill and blind and was hospitalized on August 25, 1957, the year his wife died He died on March 6, 1959 at his home in North Hollywood, California and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). George Ade wrote ""Fred Stone Jingles for Good Little Girls and Good Little Boys"" (20 pages, 8 poems, 10 interior photos by Charles Dillingham, George A Powers Printing Co., 1921). Stone's autobiography, ""Rolling Stone"", was published in 1945 ( McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.). P. G. Wodehouse mentions him in the short story ""The"
"close relationship with him until his death in 1980. On 2/4/2010 Maura was one of the featured news stories and was interviewed by Brad Driver and Lisa G of the Howard Stern Show due to the many references in her book to Mr. Stern. (audio clip) Since then, she has published Secrets & Seduction by Cheri Blossum which won Best Erotica of 2015 from National Indie Excellence Award (), eDating the Old School Way which won praise from comedians and Amour Anarchy, a Memoir, with a rave review from the Midwest Book Review (). Maura Stone Maura Stone (born 1955)"
"of ""The Field of Rivalry: An Heroic Poem"", in four books, written in the 1850s. Stone published ""Dorica"", a volume of poems, four of which were in Dorset dialect. The volume was inspired by poet William Barnes. In 1912, Stone published ""Herbert Kynaston: A Short Memoir with Selections from His Occasional Writings"" a memoir of Herbert Kynaston (1809–1878), prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and High Master of St Paul's School, London. In August 1861, he married Elizabeth Theresa ""Lily"" Vidal, the only daughter of the Rev. Francis Furse Vidal and novelist Mary Theresa Vidal (née Johnson). She was born in"
"and published ""Choosing the President of the USA"" in 1954 and ""Reston, Virginia: Its Beginnings"" in 1965. She also,co-authored two books with her husband Harold A. Stone and Donald K. Price: ""City Manager Government in the U.S."" (which went through many editions beginning in 1939) and ""Case Studies in City Manager Government."" Stone died at home in 1995 of complications after a stroke, and was survived by her husband (who died in 1996), as well as their son, two daughters and many grandchildren. The Commission on the Status of Women posthumously named her a Person of Vision, which the General"
"The First Stone The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power is a controversial non-fiction book by Helen Garner about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne, which the author had attended in the 1960s. It was first published in Australia in 1995 and later published in the United States in 1997. The book revolves around Garner's attempts to interview the two young women at the centre of a sexual assault scandal but who declined to meet her. This sets off a narrative exploring the politics, sexual and"
"Society Award of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physics Society. In June 1985, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Swarthmore College. And, in 1995, the Federation of American Scientists gave Stone its annual Public Service Award. Stone was the son of journalist I. F. Stone and Esther Stone, and nephew of journalist and film critic Judy Stone. He resided, with his wife B. J. Stone, who predeceased him, in Carlsbad, California. The Stanford-based professor and hero of Michael Crichton's 1969 novel and movie The Andromeda Strain is named ""Dr. Jeremy Stone."" Stone"
"In 1964 Caracciolo was one of the painters chosen to paint a replica of the Sistine Chapel for the scenery of the 1965 film ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"", on the life of Michelangelo. From 1975 to 1978 he lived at Rosemount House, near Moate, County Westmeath, where he painted many scenes of the surrounding countryside and exhibited at the Lad Lane Gallery in Dublin in 1978. He also exhibited at the Solomon Gallery. In 1983 he became an associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1984 a full member of the RHA. He died near Siena, Italy"
"I. F. Stone. He earned his undergraduate degree from the City College of New York (B.S.S., 1931) and received a LL.B. from St. John's University Law School in 1935. He married Jean Roisman, a poet. Together they had two children, Michael and Kathy, who achieved recognition in later life. Michael Boudin became a jurist and is currently a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, serving as its chief judge 2001-2008. Kathy Boudin was an activist and co-founder of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground, who served 22 years in prison for her role"
"the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Over 18 years, Stone produced 200 films for motivational and training use by IBM. In 1961, he produced the television series ""The Hathaways"". Stone was a member of the Army's Special Services unit during World War II. Ezra Stone and his actress wife Sara Seegar were married for 48 years until her death in 1990. They resided in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Four years after Seegar's death, Stone was fatally injured in a car accident near Perth Amboy, New Jersey at age 76. The Stones had a son, Joseph, and a daughter, Francine. Stone"
"pastor of San Francisco's First Congregational Church for twenty-five years until his death in 1892. He was the author of ""Service the End of Living,"" and several other works. Stone had six children and died in San Francisco, California in 1892. Andrew Leete Stone Andrew Leete Stone (b. Nov. 25, 1815; d. Jan. 16, 1892) was an author, Civil War chaplain and pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Stone was born in Oxford, Connecticut in 1815 and graduated from Yale College in 1837. On July 14, 1842, Stone married Matilda Bertody Fisher of New York City. For"
"Bruce Eisner Bruce Jay Ehrlich (February 26, 1948 – January 1, 2013), better known by his pen name Bruce Eisner, was an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book ""Ecstasy: The MDMA Story"". Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York. At age 2, he moved with his family to the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles where he lived for the next 25 years. His first publication was at age 16, when he won an LA County-wide essay contest. The essay, ""Democracy and What It Means to Me"" was published in the Congressional Record by Congressman"
"14, 1857, who became a leader of the suffrage movement and wrote the first biography of her mother, ""Lucy Stone: Pioneer Woman Suffragist."" In 1859, while the family was living temporarily in Chicago, Stone miscarried and lost a baby boy. After her marriage, from the summer of 1855 to the summer of 1857, Stone continued a full lecturing, petitioning, and organizing schedule. In January 1856, Stone was accused in court, and spoke in defense of a rumor put forward by the prosecution that Stone gave a knife to former slave Margaret Garner, on trial for the killing of her own"
"stories, book reviews, and essays, including ""3,000 Years of Racism"". Stone's book ""When God Was a Woman"" had a profound effect on the emerging Goddess Culture of the 1970s and 1980s in the US. She was featured in the 1989 documentary ""Goddess Remembered"". She was diagnosed with pseudobulbar palsy in 2005 and died of dementia complications in 2011. Merlin Stone Merlin Stone (born Marilyn Jacobson, September 27, 1931 – February 23, 2011) was an American author, sculptor, and professor of art and art history. She was an important thinker of the feminist theology and Goddess movements and is known for"
"months. In 1930 he received a letter from Dr. Felix Rey - who treated Vincent after he'd cut off his own ear in December 1888, later becoming his friend and subject of a portrait painting by Van Gogh - confirming it was the whole ear that was removed, not just the lobe. In 1931 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, according to the ""NY Times"" obituary of August 28, 1989. According to the ""Times"", ""Lust for Life"" (the title suggested"
"under his own name. Stein's first novel was published in 1930. His first mystery, ""Murder at the Piano"", was published in 1935. The first novel written as Stone was titled ""The Corpse in the Corner Saloon"". It was reviewed in the New York Times in 1948. George Bagby (author) Aaron Marc Stein (1906 – August 29, 1985), who used the nom de plume George Bagby, was an American novelist who specialized in mystery fiction. Bagby's focus was on police investigators, especially the fictional Inspector Schmidt, Chief of Homicide for the New York Police Department. In the Schmidt novels, mystery-writer Bagby"
"novel, ""The Love Machine"", is the story of Robin Stone, a ruthless but tormented executive in the cut-throat world of 1960s network television, and three women who love him: Amanda, the doomed fashion model; Maggie, the independent television personality turned movie actress; and Judith, the insecure wife of the network founder. Like ""Valley"", the book was considered a ""roman a clef"", with Robin reportedly based on former CBS president James Aubrey. Published by Simon & Schuster on May 14, 1969, the book was an immediate success: it spent 32 weeks (13 weeks at #1) on the ""New York Times"" best"
"Bronston pursued Heston to play the title role in an epic shot in Spain, ""El Cid"" (1961), which was a big success. He was in a war film for Paramount, ""The Pigeon That Took Rome"" (1962), and a melodrama shot in Hawaii, ""Diamond Head"" (1963). Bronston wanted him for another epic and the result was ""55 Days at Peking"" (1963), which was a box office disappointment. Heston focused on epics: he was John the Baptist in ""The Greatest Story Ever Told"" (1965); Michelangelo in ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"" (1965) opposite Rex Harrison; the title role in ""Major Dundee"" (1965),"
"dramatic roles such as his portrayal of Julius Caesar in ""Cleopatra"" (1963) and as Pope Julius II in ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"" (1965), opposite Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. He also acted in a Hindi film ""Shalimar"" alongside Indian Bollywood star Dharmendra as well as appearing opposite Richard Burton as two ageing homosexuals in ""Staircase"" (1969). Harrison was married six times. In 1942, he divorced his first wife, Colette Thomas, and married actress Lilli Palmer the next year; they later appeared together in numerous plays and films, including ""The Four Poster"". In 1947, while married to Palmer, Harrison began an"
"""Romola"" (1863), E. R. Eddison's ""A Fish Dinner in Memison"" (1941), Irving Stone's ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"" (1961), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's ""The Palace"" (1978), Michael Ondaatje's ""The English Patient – part two"" 1992, Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's ""If at Faust You Don't Succeed"" (1993), Timothy Findley's ""Pilgrim"" (1999), Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's ""Rule of Four"" (2004), the novel ""I, Mona Lisa"" by Jeanne Kalogridis (2006), the Showtime series ""The Borgias"", The Sky (Italy) and Netflix (North America) series ""Borgia"", and ""The Botticelli Affair"" by Traci L. Slatton (2013). Other references in popular culture include these: Bonfire of"
"patients. In 1959 Dr. Stanley Jones was named “Missionary Extraordinary” by the Methodist missionary publication World Outlook. In 1963, Dr. E. Stanley Jones received the Gandhi Peace Award. Dr. Jones had become a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, and after Gandhi's assassination wrote a biography on his life. It is noted that later in time, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told Jones' daughter, Eunice Jones Mathews, that it was this biography that inspired him to ""non-violence"" in the Civil Rights Movement. In December 1971, at the age of 88, while leading the Oklahoma Christian Ashram, Dr. Stanley Jones suffered a"