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Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. It was reissued in 1972 by Pocket Books, in 2003 by Vintage [1] and in 2006 by New York Review Books Classics with an introduction by John McGahern. [2] Stoner has been categorized under the genre of the academic novel, or the campus novel. [3]
Ralph William Robert Stonor, 8th Baron Camoys (born 10 September 1974), is a British hereditary peer and a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Lord Camoys became a member of the House in November 2023, after winning a hereditary peers' by-election to replace Lord Brougham and Vaux .
Stoner, a 1965 novel by John Williams; Stoner 63 (XM207), a modular 5.56 mm assault rifle/LMG; Stoner, Colorado, a community in the United States; Stoner SR-25 a semi-automatic sniper rifle; Stoner (drug user) Stoner film, a subgenre of comedy films; Stoner, an alternate title for the 1974 Hong Kong film The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss
Like the Paston family, the Stonor family was founded by a royal judge; his name was John Stonor. [3] The Stonors did not participate in the Wars of the Roses; [4] but Sir William Stoner was nevertheless attainted in 1483, and his papers seized by the crown, as well as his lands.
[9] Dickstein called Stoner "something rarer than a great novel—it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, it takes your breath away." In 2018, a biography of Williams written by Charles J. Shields titled The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life was published by the ...
Parley Edward Baer (August 5, 1914 – November 22, 2002) was an American actor in radio and later in television and film. [2] Despite dozens of appearances in television series and theatrical films, he remains best known as the original "Chester" in the radio version of Gunsmoke, and as the Mayor of Mayberry (Roy Stoner) in The Andy Griffith Show.
Ralph Thomas Campion George Sherman Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, GCVO, PC, DL (16 April 1940 – 4 January 2023 [1]) was a British peer and banker who served as Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2000, and the first Catholic Lord Chamberlain since the Reformation.
Stonor House, the seat of the Baron Camoys. The barony of Camoys was created twice. From 26 November 1313 to 1 April 1335 Ralph de Camoys (d.1336) was summoned to Parliament by writ, and is thereby held to have become Baron Camoys of the first creation. [1]