"My parents lived in a very creative social orbit that impacted their lives and a lot of my father's work,"Alexandra Styron ...

After reading through nearly 700 pages of William Styron’s correspondence – and not a boring letter in the bunch – an astute reader might come away with five maxims about the writing life. 1. A writer ...

"A good book," said William Styron in 1954, "should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You lead several lives while reading it. Its writer should, too." Mr. Styron was ...

William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Sophie's Choice" and other novels whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal ...

Styron's daughter, Alexandra, said the author died of pneumonia at a hospital in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Styron, who had homes in Martha's Vineyard and Connecticut, had been in failing health for a ...

New York - William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and other novels whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged ...

William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and other novels whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own ...

To call William Styron’s “The Confessions of Nat Turner” and the response to it a seminal event would be understating its impact. The 1967 novel focusing on a visionary who led the most effective and ...

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER by William Styron. 428 pages. Random House. $6.95. In the summer of 1831, a force of 60 Negroes led by a mad, messianic slave named Nat Turner cut a red swath through the ...

When the theater and film director James Lapine first met Rose Styron, he knew her as William Styron’s widow. He learned there was a lot more to her. By Glenn Kenny The poet and activist Rose Styron, ...