William Styron

• May-1960
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The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter—both in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The blaze of events which followed...

• 1967
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Nat Turner's rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831 marked a turning point in the struggle for the ending of slavery in America. After being tried and convicted of insurrection, Turner's confession and jai...

• Mar-1968
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In the blaze of a Carolina summer, among the poison ivy and loblolly pines, eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. Deciding that his batallion has been "doping off," Colonel Templeton calls for a 36-mile forced march to i...

• Apr-1979
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"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron b...

• Jul-1979
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William Styron traces the betrayals and infidelities--the heritage of spite and endlessly disappointed love--that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis....

• Nov-1985
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• Jan-1993
• / Literary
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Two extraordinary works about soldiers in a time of dubious peace by a writer of vast eloquence and moral authority. With stylistic panache and vitriolic wit, William Styron depicts conflicts between men of somewhat more than average intelligence and...

• Jan-1993
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"Styron is pre-eminent . . . in his instinct for tragedy and in his respect for the sheer force of human feeling." -- Alfred Kazin
 
In an age when much American writing was either glacially noncommittal or heremetically personal, William St...

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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From 1947 to 1949, William Styron twice attempted to write a novel under the working title Inheritance of Night. On the third attempt he produced the award-winning Lie Down in Darkness, which when published in September 1951 established him as one of...

• Nov-1993
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In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Sty...

• May-1994
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A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psych...

• Oct-2009
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Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction -- including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on ...

• Aug-2010
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A military hospital is the setting for this darkly humorous play by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Darkness Visible and Sophie's Choice . In the summer of 1943, a young Marine named Wally Magruder arrives at a Navy hospital in the...

• Oct-2012
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From 1947 to 1949, William Styron twice attempted to write a novel under the working title Inheritance of Night. On the third attempt he produced the award-winning Lie Down in Darkness, which when published in September 1951 established him as one of...