The Origin by Irving Stone6/22/2023 ![]() She said her husband wanted to be remembered “as an author who brought to enormous numbers of people an understanding of men or women whom they would not ordinarily have understood. They want to get on to the fun work of writing. Most authors don’t want to put that much time into research. ![]() He was willing to put two or three years into it. “His work was absolutely authentic,” his wife said. ![]() ![]() He related later that he became more and more faint “until finally at 1:19 I threw off the covers, dashed to the back window, stuck my head out and took in deep lungsful of the night air.” On the 40th anniversary of Van Gogh’s death, Stone lay on the bed in the room where the artist had died at 1:20 a.m. He identified with his characters so intensely that he seemed almost to become the character. Stone took on complex characters who intrigued him-Mary Todd Lincoln in “Love Is Eternal,” published in 1954 Michelangelo in “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” 1961 Sigmund Freud in “The Passions of the Mind,” 1971, and Charles Darwin in “The Origin,” 1980-and approached his subjects as a detective, searching for facts that would provide insight into their lives. ![]()
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