Background
Styron, William was born on June 11, 1925 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Son of William Clark and Pauline Margaret (Abraham) Styron.
(The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Fla...)
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 Peterboth in their violence and in their maddening unreality. The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realized, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself, and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three eventsmurder, rape and suicideexplode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil. It may be one of the finest novels of our times . . . Styron, besides being a superb craftsman and a skillful, evocative artist, is a master storyteller.San Francisco Chronicle
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(Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to becom...)
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
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(In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " th...)
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 Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war, and racism.
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Styron, William was born on June 11, 1925 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Son of William Clark and Pauline Margaret (Abraham) Styron.
Student, Christchurch School, Davidson College. Doctor of Letters, Davidson College, 1986. AB, Duke University, 1947.
Doctor of Letters, Duke University, 1968.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Letters at American Academy in Rome, 1953. Fellow Silliman College, Yale, 1964-1999. Jury president Cannes Film Festival, 1983.
William Styron has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.
(Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to becom...)
(In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " th...)
(The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Fla...)
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Arts and Letters, Society of America Historians, Signet Society, Harvard, Académie Goncourt, Phi Beta Kappa.
Tennis, sailing.
Married Rose Burgunder, May 4, 1953. Children: Susanna Margaret, Paola Clark, Thomas, Claire Alexandra.
