Bernard Stone Author

Bernard Stone (Author) Bernard Stone was one of the great literary figures of London. A bookseller and an author born in Nottingham in 1924, his parents were Jewish refugees from the Ukraine. He began his working life as a street-trader before eventually founding his own bookshop in London, and going on to write many books for adults and children before his death in 2005. Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) Ralph Steadman is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture books.