![]() ![]() But Van Gogh was not a person to let truth get in the way of a good story. ![]() Van Gogh left a substantial body of personal papers behind him, kept by his loving younger brother Theo. Reading Recommendations for Van Gogh Fans After the book ends, Stone has a section called "Notes", where he admits to the reader that a couple of the scenes (such as Van Gogh's meeting with Paul Cezanne) were clearly a product of his imagination. ![]() This is because Stone had to take some poetic license in order to make a coherent and interesting novel. There are few people that have had a more interesting (if tragic) life than the highly influential Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890).Īlthough this is a biography, it's usually found under "fiction" in bookstores and libraries. Early on in Stone's career, he decided that biographies of famous people should be just as gripping as dime-store novels. Lust for Life (1934) is Irving Stone's best-known novel. ![]()
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