- Gene Stone
----Gene Stone is an American writer and editor.
A graduate of
Stanford andHarvard , he is a formerPeace Corps volunteer , a screenwriter, and a journalist as well as a book, magazine, and newspaper editor including "The Los Angeles Times ", "California" magazine (editor in chief), "Esquire",Harcourt Trade Publishers ,Bantam Books , andSimon & Schuster .He is best known for what he is not known for: he has ghostwritten more than thirty books for a diverse group of people, including theoretical physicist
Stephen Hawking , formerYahoo! Chief Solutions Officer Tim Sanders, and Mark Liponis, the medical director ofCanyon Ranch Resorts . Six of these books have been national bestsellers.He has also published several titles under his own name, including a "
Washington Post " number one bestseller, "The Bush Survival Bible." He lives inNew York City , from where he blogs regularly for theHuffington Post .An avid watch collector, he appeared on
CBS News Sunday Morning (October 29 ,2006 ) discussing his book, "The Watch" the definitive book of men's wristwatches.Works
* "The Bush Survival Bible" Gene Stone (Villard, 2004) ISBN 0-8129-7476-X
* "The Watch" Gene Stone (Harry N. Abrams, 2006) ISBN 0-8109-3093-5External links
* [http://www.genestone.com/ Stone's home page]
*Stone's appearance on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBbpkS_M3CM CBS News Sunday Morning] discussing "The Watch"
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