I. F. Stone, original name Isidor Feinstein, was born in the United States in 1907. He worked on his high school newsletter and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Post and The Philadelphia Record.
In 1938, Stone became the associate editor of the liberal weekly The Nation and then become its editor from 1940 to 1946. He also worked as a reporter for PM and The New York Daily Compass, both experimental liberal dailies which have since ceased publication.
Stone set up his own weekly publication called I. F. Stone's Weekly, which ran from 1953 until 1971; its subscribers included Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and Eleanor Roosevelt. He was an early supporter of the civil rights movement and an opponent of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. He also authored a number of books.
Stone delivered a series of three Beatty lectures in May 1983 on the theme "The Trial of Socrates Revisited" including "What Plato Doesn't Tell Us: The Case for the Prosecution", "How Easily Socrates Might Have Won Acquittal" and "Plato on Trial: The Hidden Horrors of a Perfect City".
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