Background
Laurie Stone was born on October 18, 1946, in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Murray and Toby (Bilder) Stone.
Laurie Stone was born on October 18, 1946, in New York City, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Murray and Toby (Bilder) Stone.
Stone is a graduate of Barnard College and holds a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University since 1969.
Stone taught at Hunter College and Queens College from 1969 to 1975. She then served many years as a journalist for The Village Voice (from 1974 to 1999) and as a theatre critic for The Nation and critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air from 1987 to 1990.
Since 1990, Stone works as a freelance writer and teaches at different workshops all over the world.
Laurie Stone is best known as the author of My Life as an Animal, Stories (TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press), the novel Starting with Serge (Doubleday), and the essay collection Laughing in the Dark (Ecco). She is also an editor of and a contributor to the memoir anthology Close to the Bone (Grove). She has published numerous memoir essays and stories in such publications as Tin House, Evergreen Review, Fence, Open City, Anderbo, Nanofiction, The Los Angeles Review, New Letters, Ms., TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, Memorious, Creative Nonfiction, St Petersburg Review, and Four Way Review. Her short fiction and nonfiction appear in the anthologies They’re at it Again: Stories from Twenty Years of Open City, In the Fullness of Time, The Face in the Mirror, The Other Woman, Best New Writing of 2007, Full Frontal Fiction, and Money, Honey, among others. Her reviews have been published in the L.A. Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Newsday.
Included in her grants are two from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Kittredge Foundation, Yaddo, MacDowell, VCCA, the Edward Albee Colony, Saltonstall, Djerassi, the Millay Colony, Ragdale, and Poets & Writers.
During her career, Stone also served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle and was included in the “Living Writers Series” at Muhlenberg College.
(A collection of essays, reviews and interviews from the V...)
1997(Leaving behind their Jewish heritage and Manhattan's Lowe...)
1990(Close to the Bone scouts the territories of sex, the fami...)
1998(As the first of Laurie Stone’s linked stories begins, the...)
2016Stone is a member of the International PEN, Poets and Writers, National Book Critics Circle and Phi Beta Kappa.
