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Stone, Gene, 1951- (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Stone, Gene, 1951-

Dr. Fulford's touch of life, c1996: CIP t.p. (Gene Stone)

Phone call to pub., 06-11-96: (Gene Robert Stone, b. 10-06-51)

The Bush survival Bible, c2004: (Gene Stone)

The watch, 2006: CIP t.p. (Gene Stone)

His website, viewed 29 June 2015: (Gene Stone; freelance writer, ghostwriter, and avid wristwatch collector; after receiving his masters from Stanford University, he spent two years in Niger with the Peace Corps; returning to his home state of New York, he became an editor at Harcourt Brace, where he edited a wide range of books; he then worked at Bantam Books; next, he worked as a senior editor at Esquire Magazine; he then moved to Los Angeles, where he was west coast editor of Simon & Schuster, a consulting editor at The Los Angeles Times, and editor in chief of California Magazine; in 1988 he began a career as a writer and ghostwriter; he has ghost- or co-written more than thirty books with a diverse group of people, including theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, former Yahoo! chief solutions officer Tim Sanders, Canyon Ranch Resorts medical director Mark Liponis, CNN executive vice-president Gail Evans, and TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie; lists publications, incl. "How not to die", "The awareness", "My beef with meat", etc.)