William Styron | William Styron (1925–2006)Includes the names: W. Styron, Willam Styron, William Syron, William Stryon, William Styron, William Styron, William Sytron, Styron William, Styron Williams, William Stryron ... (see complete list), Willliam Styron, William C. Styron, ed. William Styron, Styron William R2H6, William Clark Styron, וילים סטירון, Уильям Стайрон 13,474 (15,420) | 237 | 1,464 | (3.96) | 38 | 0 | William Clark Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia on June 11, 1925. He attended Duke University and took courses at the New School for Social Research in New York City, which started him on his writing career. He was a Marine lieutenant during World War II and while serving during the Korean War, was recalled from active duty because of faulty eyesight. After leaving the service, he helped start a magazine called the Paris Review and remained as an advisory editor. His first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, was published in 1951. His other books include The Long March and Set This House on Fire. He won several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner and the American Book Award for Sophie's Choice, which was made into a movie in 1982. His short story, A Tidewater Morning, was the basis for the movie Shadrach, which Styron wrote the screenplay for with his daughter. He also wrote several nonfiction books including The Quiet Dust and Other Writings and Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. He died on November 1, 2006 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Sophie's Choice … (more) |
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William Styron has 4 past events. (show)  ROSE STYRON - Selected Letters of William Styron Tuesday, Mar 25th at 7PM BookPeople Presents ROSE STYRON speaking & signing Selected Letters of William Styron Join us for a very special evening with Rose Styron, wife of William Styron, as she shares with us the new volume, Selected Letters of William Styron. Covering a career that spanned almost 60 years and many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this collection pulls back the curtain and provides readers with a unique view of the author's life. Rose Styron is a poet, journalist, translator, and human rights activist.
This incredible volume takes readers on an American journey from FDR to George W. Bush through the trenchant observations of one of the country's greatest writers. Not only will readers take pleasure in William Styron's correspondence with and commentary about the people and events that made the past century such a momentous and transformative time, they will also share the writer's private meditations on the very art of writing.
ROSE STYRON is a poet, journalist, translator, and human rights activist. She has published three books of poetry. At the forefront of the field of international human rights since she joined the board of Amnesty International USA in 1970, she has chaired PEN's Freedom to Write Committee and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. In order to have anything signed at a BookPeople event, a copy of the event book must be purchased from BookPeople. If you purchase your book from BookPeople in advance of the event, please save your receipt and present it at the event.
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 Rose Styron signs SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM STYRON In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, William Clark Styron, Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of Duke University. The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie down in darkness, and he was nervous about whether his “strain and toil” would amount to anything. “When I mature and broaden,” Styron told Blackburn, “I expect to use the language on as exalted and elevated a level as I can sustain. I believe that a writer should accommodate language to his own peculiar personality, and mine wants to use great words, evocative words, when the situation demands them.”
In February 1952, Styron was awarded the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which crowned him a literary star. In Europe, Styron met and married Rose Burgunder, and found himself immersed in a new generation of expatriate writers. His relationships with George Plimpton and Peter Matthiessen culminated in Styron introducing the debut issue of The Paris Review. Literary critic Alfred Kazin described him as one of the postwar “super-egotists” who helped transform American letters.
His controversial The Confessions of Nat Turner won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize, while Sophie’s Choice was awarded the 1980 National Book Award, and Darkness Visible, Styron’s groundbreaking recounting of his ordeal with depression, was not only a literary triumph, but became a landmark in the field.
Part and parcel of Styron’s literary ascendance were his friendships with Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, John and Jackie Kennedy, Arthur Miller, James Jones, Carlos Fuentes, Wallace Stegner, Robert Penn Warren, Philip Roth, C. Vann Woodward, and many of the other leading writers and intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century.
This incredible volume takes readers on an American journey from FDR to George W. Bush through the trenchant observations of one of the country’s greatest writers. Not only will readers take pleasure in William Styron’s correspondence with and commentary about the people and events that made the past century such a momentous and transformative time, they will also share the writer’s private meditations on the very art of writing.
About the Author Rose Styron is a poet, journalist, translator, and human rights activist. She has published three books of poetry: Thieves’ Afternoon, From Summer to Summer, and By Vineyard Light. At the forefront of the field of international human rights since she joined the board of Amnesty International USA in 1970, she has chaired PEN’s Freedom to Write Committee and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Currently, for the Academy of American Poets, she co-chairs, with Meryl Streep, Poetry and the Creative Mind. She will be joined by co-contributor and editor R. Blakeslee Gilpin.
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 Rose Styron "Selected Letters of William Styron" Rose Styron, the widow of writer William Styron, has compiled many of his letters in this incredible volume. It takes readers on an American journey from FDR to George W. Bush through the trenchant observations of one of the country’s greatest writers. Not only will readers take pleasure in William Styron’s correspondence with and commentary about the people and events that made the past century such a momentous and transformative time, they will also share the writer’s private meditations on the very art of writing. Former President Bill Clinton says “I first encountered Bill Styron when, at twenty, I read The Confessions of Nat Turner. Hillary and I became friends with Bill and Rose early in my presidency, but I continued to read him, fascinated by the man and his work, his triumphs and troubles, the brilliant lights and dark corners of his amazing mind. These letters, carefully and lovingly selected by Rose, offer real insight into both the great writer and the good man."
Rose Styron "Selected Letters of William Styron" Reading/Book Signing Monday, January 14, 2013 at 7:00pm (Tentative) Free and Open to the Public (MDGentleReader)… (more)
Book Discussion William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness. Styron traces the betrayals and infidelities that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis. (DPLFictionRoom)
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