Tom Stone
- Location: Los Angeles : CA
About Me
My attraction to things Greek began at an early age, when my Norwegian grandmother’s stories of the Norse gods led me to the Greek myths via Thor’s strong affiliation with Zeus, both of them mighty wielders of thunder and lightning. After graduating from Yale, I had the great good fortune, at the age of 21, to be taken to Greece as an assistant stage manager for a European tour of Jerome Robbins’ Ballets: U.S.A.. Predictably, I was smitten with the country. Ten years later, after a Broadway career in which I stage managed, among other productions, "Funny Girl," "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Cabaret," I returned to Greece to spend a summer finishing a long-delayed first novel. This brief visit imperceptibly lengthened into twenty-two years. During this time, I spent three years living on the island of Crete. Here I learned that Zeus had not only been born in its mountains but had been murdered, eaten, buried and resurrected there before going on to establish his 2000-year regime atop Mt. Olympus. I have since been haunted by images of these events. The result, after more than twenty of rumination and research, is “ZEUS: A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a God.”
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Interests
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
Favorite Books
- Herzog
- Middlemarch
- all of Sebald
- Death in Venice
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
- and many many others
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