William Styron
Novelist, Author
1925 – 2006
Who was William Styron?
William Clark Styron, Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness, his acclaimed first novel, published at age 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner, narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie's Choice, a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn".
In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression. Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible, the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.
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- Born
- Jun 11, 1925
Hilton Village - Also known as
- William Clark Styron Jr.
- William Clark Styron
- Bill Styron
- William Clark Styron, Jr.
- Spouses
- Rose Burgunder
(1953/04/04 - 2006/11/01)
- Rose Burgunder
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Duke University
- Davidson College
- Lived in
- Newport News
- Virginia
- Died
- Nov 1, 2006
Martha's Vineyard
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on July 23, 2013
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