John LaRoy Stone is the author of Before Pride and Prejudice, a novel that imagines the years before Jane Austen introduced readers to the Bennet family at Longbourn.

The book grew from a question he couldn't quite leave alone: What were Mr. and Mrs. Bennet like when they were young?

Austen tells us that Mr. Bennet was once captivated by his future wife's "youth and beauty" and by the "appearance of good humour" that accompanied them. Stone began there, imagining the courtship, marriage, joys, losses, and family experiences that might have shaped the two people—and the five daughters—we eventually meet in Pride and Prejudice.

Stone is also the author of Fuller Sight, a novel exploring love, loss, choices, and the possibility that the consequen ...more

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John Stone made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Kindle cover update request – Before Pride and Prejudice by John LaRoy Stone topic " Hello Goodreads Librarians, I am the author of Before Pride and Prejudice by John LaRoy Stone. I recently republished the Kindle and paperback editions ...more "
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John Stone made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please move my books from John Stone to John LaRoy Stone topic " I am the author of these books and recently claimed my Goodreads Author profile under my full name, John LaRoy Stone. My older books, Fuller Sight and ...more "
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