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| Born | (1951-10-06)October 6, 1951 (age 74) |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) Harvard University (MA) |
| Known for | Best-selling author, plant-based eating, gay advocacy, animal rights |
| Board member of | Surgeons Over Seas (SOS) and Truth Wins Out (TWO) |
| Awards | Books for a Better Life Award (twice), VegNews Book of the Year (twice), Humane League Hero of the Year, 2016 |
| Website | www |
Gene Stone (born October 6, 1951) is an American writer and editor known for his books onanimal rights andplant-based food.
Gene Stone grew up in the Westchester County suburb ofPelham, New York, the son of lawyer Henry Stone and authorBabette Rosmond, and the brother ofJames Stone, founder and CEO of Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa fromStanford and receiving his master's degree in English Literature fromHarvard, Stone joined thePeace Corps, where he spent two years in theRepublic of Niger. Returning to New York, he then started a career as an editor. He began atHarcourt Brace, where he edited a wide range of books including Patricia Bosworth's biography ofMontgomery Clift. He then worked atBantam Books, where he helped launch its hardcover division by acquiring such books as Albert Goldman's biography ofJohn Lennon andKareem Abdul-Jabbar's autobiography. Next, he worked as a senior editor atEsquire, editing authors ranging from Alan Furst and Bobbie Ann Mason to Michael Kinsley and Joel Kotkin. He then moved toLos Angeles, where he was West Coast editor ofSimon & Schuster, a consulting editor at theLos Angeles Times, and editor in chief ofCalifornia Magazine.
In 1988 Stone began a career as a writer andghostwriter. He has written extensively for magazines, includingNew YorkEsquire,GQ, andVogue, but eventually dedicated his livelihood to books. His first ghostwritten project was for the Nicaraguan politicianArturo Cruz Jr.,Memoirs of a Counter-Revolutionary (1988). Since then Stone has written more than forty books with a diverse group of people, including theoretical physicistStephen Hawking, formerYahoo! Chief Solutions OfficerTim Sanders, medical director of Canyon Ranch Resorts Mark Liponis, CNN executive vice-presidentGail Evans, andTOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie (The #1New York Times bestsellerStart Something That Matters).
Stone has written many other books under his own name, including,The Secret of People Who Never Get Sick, which has been translated into more than 30 languages; andLittle Girl Fly Away, which he co-produced as a television movie.[1] An avid watch collector, Stone appeared onCBS News Sunday Morning (October 29, 2006) discussing his book,The Watch, the definitive book of men's wristwatches. The book was thoroughly updated and published in a new edition in 2018 with a new co-author, Hodinkee.com managing editor Stephen Pulvirent.[2] Stone has also written a number of instant books for various publishers on presidential politics, including the #1Washington Post bestsellerThe Bush Survival Bible and the #1Los Angeles Times bestsellerThe Trump Survival Guide.[3] Stone serves on the board of several not-for-profit organizations, including Surgeons Over Seas (SOS), which saves lives in developing countries by improving surgical care, and Truth Will Out (TWO), a non-profit think tank and educational organization that defends theLGBT community against anti-gay misinformation. He has also written about his own experiences with conversion therapy and sexual surrogacy forNew York Magazine, (The Tiger Cure).[1]
In 2006 Stone, a vegan, met firefighterRip Esselstyn,[4] and the two of them collaborated on the hugely successful book about a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based diet,The Engine 2 Diet, which in turn was the basis of a product line atWhole Foods Market.[5] They then co-wrote two bestselling sequels. Under his own name, Stone wrote the companion book to the documentaryForks Over Knives, a film which also explores plant-based diets that was a #1New York Times bestseller. Over the last fifteen years Stone has ghostwritten, co-written, or authored many other books on plant-based diets and their relationship to health, animal protection, and the environment, many of which have been national bestsellers. These includeLiving the Farm Sanctuary Life, withFarm Sanctuary President and Co-founderGene Baur;How Not To Die with Dr.Michael Greger (which was followed up with a cookbook);Mercy for Animals (withMercy for Animals founder Nathan Runkle); Animalkind (co-authored withPETA co-founderIngrid Newkirk);Eat for the Planet andEat for the Planet Cookbook (co-authored withwww.onegreenplanet.com founder Nil Zacharias);Rescue Dogs, with undercover animal investigator Pete Paxton;Healthy at Last, withEric Adams, Mayor of New York City;[6] and72 Reasons to be Vegan withKathy Freston.
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