I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone
I. F. Stone, April 1972
Born	Isidor Feinstein Stone 24 December 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	18 June 1989 (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Middlesex County Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Investigative journalist
Spouse(s)	Esther Roisman
Website	www.ifstone.org

I. F. Stone (Isidor Feinstein Stone, 24 December 1907 – 18 June 1989) was an American investigative journalist and writer known as a man of integrity who was an inspiration to other writers, and an intellectual annoyance to the American right wing.

He is best remembered for the newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–71), which was ranked in 16th place among "The Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century", and was ranked in second place among print journalism publications.

Stone was born in Philadelphia, to Jewish Russian immigrants who owned a shop in Haddonfield, New Jersey. The journalist and film critic Judy Stone is his sister.

Stone attended Haddonfield Memorial High School. He was ranked 49th in his graduating class of 52 students. His career as a journalist began in his second year of high school, when he established The Progress newspaper. He later worked for the Haddonfield Press and for the Camden Courier-Post. After dropping out of the University of Pennsylvania, where he had studied philosophy, Stone joined the Philadelphia Inquirer, then known as the "Republican Bible of Pennsylvania".

Influenced by the socially aware work of Jack London, Stone became a politically radical journalist, and joined the Philadelphia Record (the morning edition rival of The Philadelphia Inquirer) owned by J. David Stern, a Democrat. Stone later worked for the New York Post newspaper after Stern bought it during the Great Depression (1929). In late adolescence, I.F. Stone joined the Socialist Party of America, a political decision influenced by his reading of the works of Karl Marx, Jack London, Peter Kropotkin, and Herbert Spencer. Later, he quit the Socialist Party due to the intractable sectarian divisions, ideological and political, that existed among the organizations that constituted the American left-wing.