Born: 1936 in Jackson, Mississippi
His 23 essays of In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine (1990) earned Stone his fourth Georgia Writer of the Year Award
Since 1991, Stone has co-edited On Doctoring, an anthology of literature and medicine presented to every student entering a U.S. medical school.
Of the relationship between literature and medicine, Stone believes physicians and poets share an identical duty to listen to life and, by doing so, to find each story anew.
In 1992, Georgia Governor Zell Miller presented him with the Governor's Award in the Humanities.
John Stone died of cancer in Atlanta, 2008.
Died: 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia