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, ...

A new collection of short fiction—including the first chapter of an unfinished novel—is coming from the late William Styron, according A new collection of short fiction—including the first chapter of ...

William Styron titled his first novel Lie Down in Darkness and his final memoir Darkness Visible. His career followed shadowy paths of pain, guilt and madness. His death at 81 came after years of ...

As in the decade after World War I, when the great American modernists — Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein and others — frolicked on the Left Bank, during the 1950s Paris was again the place to be. In ...

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William Styron was one of the flamboyant literary figures of the 20th Century. He was a Southerner whose novel Lie Down in Darkness received immense acclaim when he was just 26 years old. He would go ...

“I was aware that this was a contraband item under the embargo against Cuban goods and that the embargo had been promulgated by the very man who had just pressed ...

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 ...

William Styron casts a long shadow over the 20th century American literary landscape. His 1951 debut novel, Lie Down in Darkness, garnered immense acclaim when he was just 26 years old. He was ...

When Alexandra Styron was considering what college to attend in the early 1980s, her father, author William Styron, took her to see his alma mater, Duke University. Although she didn't end up going to ...

When Gertrude Steindeclared those who came of age during World War I a lost generation, she did not anticipate that they would not be the last. The novels of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and ...