William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. Styron was best known for his novels, including: Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26; The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt; Sophie's Choice (1979), 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 psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn". Photograph by Bernard Gotfryd
Lie Down in Darkness. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. The Long March. New York: Random House, 1956.[22] Set This House on Fire. New York: Random House, 1960 The Confessions of Nat Turner. New York: Random House, 1967. In the Clap Shack. New York: Random House, 1973. Sophie's Choice. New York: Random House, 1979. Shadrach. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1979. This Quiet Dust and Other Writings. New York: Random House, 1982. Expanded edition, New York: Vintage, 1993. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. New York: Random House, 1990. A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth. New York: Random House, 1993 Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness. Preface by William Styron. Ed. James L. W. West III. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays. New York: Random House, 2008. The Suicide Run: Fives Tales of the Marine Corps. New York: Random House, 2009. Selected Letters of William Styron. Edited by Rose Styron, with R. Blakeslee Gilpin. New York: Random House, 2012. My Generation: Collected Nonfiction. Edited by James I West III. New York: Random House, 2015.
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