Sep 20, 2023 · In fall 2001, I spent an entire day interviewing poet and human rights activist Rose Styron, then 73, and a late afternoon and evening interviewing her husband, literary icon William Styron,...

William Styron can still see him sloshing across the snow in back of his house in Connecticut. And himself, the white Southerner, wondering, thinking - Lord, what deep thoughts must be...

By exploring difficult historical and moral questions in his novels, Styron earned a place among the leading literary figures of the post-World War II generation and was a Pulitzer Prize winner. Early in his career, he was recognized as giving voice to southern culture like William Faulkner before him, as in “Lie Down in Darkness,” and ...

Dec 2, 2007 · My father, William Styron, died just over a year ago. Famous by his mid-twenties, he helped create the cliché of the gifted, hard-drinking, bellicose writer which gave so much of...

May 14, 2018 · William Styron (born 1925) was a Southern writer of novels and articles. His major works were Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice. His major theme was the response of basically decent people to such cruelties of life as war, slavery, and madness.

Nov 2, 2006 · William Styron, the celebrated American novelist, died Wednesday at 81. Styron, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1967 book The Confessions of Nat Turner, may be best known for Sophie's Choice.

Jan 31, 2007 · Styron was celebrated for being combative and prickly, but really he was a man who set out to make sense of his life and his experiences of the most traumatic episodes in the world—the war,...

William Styron wrote some of his most well-known novels at this Greek Revival farmhouse where he had a studio retreat. The family moved to this quiet pastoral town to get away from the fast pace of New York City.

Nov 25, 2012 · The momentous life of Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron is now chronicled in more than 1,000 of his letters compiled by his widow, Rose Styron. The collection is called, Selected Letters of William Styron.