Robert W Stock

At 19, with a wife and a baby and no job, Bob Stock landed a spot on a weekly newspaper with an assist from Golda Meir's sister. It was the unlikely start of an improbable career of highs and lows, in and out of journalism, that, in 1967, dropped im on the doorstep of The New York Times.

For the next 30 years, Stock served as an award-winning writer and editor at seven different Times Sunday sections including the Magazine, Week in Review, and Business & Financial. He wrote extensively for these sections and other parts of the paper, and created and wrote including a pioneering column about the elderly.

In 1955, after five years as a reporter and editor on the Sunday staff of the Bridgeport CT Post-Telegram, Stock was hired by the Lycoming Division of the Avco corporation as a publicist. Three years later, he moved on to the American Petroleum Institute, where he edited its consumer magazine, Petroleum Today.

After retiring from The Times, Stock became a freelance editor and writer, producing online essays and magazine articles, ghostwriting management books and biographies, co-authoring medical books ((Preventing Hospital Infections and Teaching Inpatient Medicine). He has had two wives and two children and has an abiding interest in sports and classical music. He resides in New York City.