STYRON, WILLIAM

1925–, American novelist, b. Newport News, Va., grad. Duke, 1947. He became well known for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967; Pulitzer Prize), a fictional recreation of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia led by Nat Turner. Because Styron's account dos not strictly adhere to historical fact and because he is a white man depicting a black man's experiences, the novel elicited harsh criticism, especially from black intellectuals. Styron's other novels include Lie Down in Darkness (1951), Set This House on Fire (1960), and Sophie's Choice (1979). Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990) describes his bout with clinical depression, and A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth (1993) is a trilogy of autobiographical novellas.

See biography by J. L. W. West 3d (1998); studies by J. K. Crane (1985), S. L. Murthy (1988), S. Coale (1991), G. Cologne-Brookes (1995), D. W. Ross, ed. (1995), and E. Herion-Sarafidis (1995).

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The Critical Response to William Styron
Book by Daniel W. Ross; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Southern States--In Literature, Styron, William--1925---Criticism And Interpretation
...Influence p. 80. 27 Rubin, "William Styron: Notes on a Southern Writer in...Influence p. 90. 29 Richard Pearce, William Styron Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...Stelzig, "A Conversation with William Styron," in Conversations with William...
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William Styron
Book by Melvin J. Friedman; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1974
Subjects: Southern States--In Literature, Styron, William--1925---Criticism And Interpretation
...1971 . Durden, Robert F. "William Styron and His Black Critics," South...187. Fenton, Charles A. "William Styron and the Age of the Slob," South...Revival and Family Alienation: William Styron, J. D. Salinger and Edward...
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Holocaust Fiction
Book by Sue Vice; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Australian Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), In Literature, Jews In Literature, Styron, William--1925---Sophie's Choice, World War, 1939-1945--Literature And The War
...city (Holocaust as Metaphor: William Styron and Sophies Choice , Anglistik...of her savior, Nathan Landau ( William Styron, New York: Ungar, 1987, p...ironic imagery ( The Novels of William Styron: From Harmony to History, Baton...
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The Fictional World of William Hoffman
Book by William L. Frank; University of Missouri Press, 2000
Subjects: Hoffman, William--1925---Criticism And Interpretation
...University. In addition to her work on William Hoffman, she has published and...Doris Betts, Hortense Calisher, William Faulkner, Kaye Gibbons, Gail...Price, Lee Smith, Max Steele, William Styron, and Eudora Welty. Dabney Stuart...
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William Faulkner's Sanctuary
Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1988
Subjects: Faulkner, William--1897-1962--Sanctuary
...section of, 104 , 105 Stein, William, 98 Stevens, Gavin The Town...Straumann, Heinrich, 43 , 95 Styron, William, 83 Sutpen, Judith Absalom...Wolfe, Thomas, 1 Wordsworth, William, 2 , 3 ; Michael , 3; The Old...
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journal articles on: Styron William  - 112 results

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Looking Back: A Conversation with William Styron
Journal article by Gavin Cologne-Brookes; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: Novelists, Styron, William
Looking Back: A Conversation with William Styron. by Gavin Cologne-Brookes WILLIAM STYRON AND I RECORDED THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION...distinguish between the perspective of the William Styron of 1998, as a writer and as a person...
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Against Depression: Final Knowledge in Styron, Mairs, and Solomon
Journal article by Lee Zimmerman; Biography, Vol. 30, 2007
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Literary techniques--Comparative analysis, Mairs, Nancy--Criticism and interpretation, Mairs, Nancy--Works, Solomon, Andrew--Criticism and interpretation, Solomon, Andrew--Works, Styron, William--Criticism and interpretation, Styron, William--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works
...In 1988, American novelist William Styron, prompted by the "mystified...Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "William Styron, 81, Novelist Who Transcended...Strands." N. Casey 126-37. Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir...
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A Rose Is a Rose Is a Columbine: Citizen Kane and William Styron's Nat Turner
Journal article by Bruce M. Firestone; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 5, 1977
Subjects: Christianity, Confessions, Styron, William, Turner, Nat (1800-31)
...a Columbine: Citizen Kane and William Styrons Nat Turner by Bruce M...recently in The Southern Review, William Styron remarked that it was a viewing...the latest, The Achievement of William Styron, is just out from the University...
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William Styron's Life and Work
Journal article by Marcus Klein; New England Review, Vol. 19, 1998
Subjects: Styron, William--1925-
Marcus Klein William Styrons Life and Work In...biography * is reticent where Styron himself has not been...island of Marthas Vineyard Styron cuts a strange figure for...James L. West III, William Styron: A Life. Random House...
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Sophie's Voice, Tolstoy, Film, Music: Interpreting a Leaf from the Manuscript of Sophie's Choice
Journal article by Gavin Cologne-Brookes; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, American--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Sophie's Choice (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Styron, William--Criticism and interpretation, Styron, William--Works
...of another mans thought" ("William Styron to Publishers Weekly" 55...Choice." Critical Essays on William Styron. Ed. Arthur Casciato and James...Yorker 10 December 2007: 50-60. Styron, William. "Appendix: Extracts from Conversations...
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Cigarette Ads and the Press
Magazine article by William Styron, Ira Glasser, Michael Pertschuk, Sanford Levinson; The Nation, Vol. 244, March 7, 1987
Subjects: Advertising--Censorship, Censorship--Case studies, Cigarettes--Advertising, Tobacco--Physiological aspects, censorship--Case studies
...Cigarette Ads and the Press. by William Styron , Ira Glasser , Michael Pertschuk...advertisers and others are invited. WILLIAM STYRON I was born and reared in a major...apostate and the true believer. William Styron is author of the Pulitzer Prize...
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Prozac Days, Halcion Nights: Profits and Pills
Magazine article by William Styron; The Nation, Vol. 256, January 4, 1993
Subjects: Depression (Mood disorder)--Drug therapy, Depression, Mental--Drug therapy, Pharmaceutical industry--Product information
...Nights: Profits and Pills. by William Styron In the spring of 19911 was invited...billed as "A Conference With William Styron." At the conference, where...The first question was, "Mr. Styron, that was quite a story about...
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Prophet Faulkner: Ignored for Much of His Own Time and Then Embalmed in Dignity by the Nobel Prize, William Faulkner Spoke to the Violence and Disorder of Our Time ..
Magazine article by Larry Levinger; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, June 2000
Subjects: American writers, Faulkner, William
...in Dignity by the Nobel Prize, William Faulkner Spoke to the Violence...Levinger IN Mosquitoes (1927), William Faulkner wrote, "`I think he...died, thirty-five years later, William Styron, riding in the funeral cortege...
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A Sense of Place
Magazine article by William R. Ferris; Humanities, Vol. 19, January 1998
Subjects: Ferris, William R, Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, Nostalgia
...property. These artists help us understand what William Faulkner meant when he remarked that early in...Alex Haley, B. B. King, Shelby Foote, and William Styron; the annual symposia on William Faulkner, southern history, the book, Elvis...
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Teaching American History
Magazine article by William Cronon; American Scholar, Vol. 67, Winter 1998
Subjects: Historians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, United States history--Study and teaching
...works by Pynchon or Sontag or Vidal or Styron, etc., history is the foreground...prescription of the eminent world historian William H. McNeill: One cannot know everything...nation. One of our leading educators, William Chandler Bagley (1874-1946), wrote...
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newspaper articles on: Styron William  - 48 results

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William Styron as a Marine
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 22, 2009
Subjects: Styron, William
William Styron as a Marine. Byline: John Greenya, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES William Styron may be gone, but his talent lives on...FIVE TALES OF THE MARINE CORPS By William Styron Random House, $24, 195 pages REVIEWED...
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Understanding William Styron
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), April 29, 2011
Subjects: Styron, Alexandra
Understanding William Styron. Byline: James E. Person Jr...loving smile at her daddy, novelist William Styron (1925-2006). He is telling a...VISIBLE: A MEMOIR OF MADNESS By William Styron Modern Library, 2007 A work of great...
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Lessons from Styron
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 23, 2006
Subjects: Sophie's Choice (Motion picture), Sophie's Choice (Novel), Styron, William
Lessons from Styron. Byline: David Healey...gentlemans accent, the late William Styron who died Nov. 1 looked...1951 novel with echoes of William Faulkner that nonetheless...class assignments. On a Styron kick now, and hoping I...
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WILLIAM STYRON'S MIXED MEMORIES OF THE MARINES; THE SUICIDE RUN by William Styron (Cape, [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; January 14, 2010
Subjects: Marines, Soldiers, Suicide
WILLIAM STYRONS MIXED MEMORIES OF THE MARINES; THE SUICIDE RUN by William Styron (Cape, Pounds Sterling14.99). Byline...introduction to the late US novelist William Styron, or as a coda for completist fans...
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There's a Doctor in the Senate; the Nation Can Now Heal from 'Wounds of Division'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 30, 2002
Subjects: Frist, William
...dangerous as segregation of the heart. Two decades ago, William Styron, a white novelist born in Virginia, wrote a wonderful...difference what the color of the talented writer was. William Hawthorne was hardly an adulterous woman, but he wrote...
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encyclopedia articles on: Styron William  - 2 results

 
 
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Styron, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STYRON, WILLIAM 1925 2006, American novelist, b...haunting history as an Auschwitz survivor. Styron also wrote short stories, novellas...autobiographical novellas. See Conversations with William Styron (1985), ed. by J. L. W. West...
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Monroe, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Va. Early Life Leaving the College of William and Mary in 1776 to fight in the American...was even more disastrous. Monroe and William Pinkney struggled to arrive at a commercial...Morgan (1921, repr. 1969), A. Styron (1945), and W. P. Cresson (1946...


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