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
The Critical Response to WILLIAM STYRON The Critical Response to WILLIAM STYRON Edited by DANIEL W. ROSS Critical...Cataloging-in-Publication Data The critical response to William Styron / edited by Daniel W. Ross. p. cm.-- Critical...
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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
WILLIAM STYRON William Styron By Melvin J . Friedman Bowling Green University Popular...Chapter 1 AN OVERVIEW 1 Chapter 2 WILLIAM STYRON AND THE NO UVEA U ROMAN 19...
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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
...Keneally Sophies Choice by William Styron The Hand that Signed...1939-1945-Literature and the war. 5. Styron, William, 1925-Sophies choice. 6. Jews...List 90 William Styron, Sophies Choice 117...
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William Faulkner's Sanctuary
Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1988
Subjects: Faulkner, William--1897-1962--Sanctuary
Modern Critical Interpretations William Faulkners Sanctuary Modern Critical Interpretations...preparation Modern Critical Interpretations William Faulkners Sanctuary Edited and...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Faulkners Sanctuary. Modern critical...
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A William Faulkner Encyclopedia
Book by Robert W. Hamblin, Charles A. Peek; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Faulkner, William--1897-1962--Encyclopedias, Mississippi--In Literature--Encyclopedias, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography--Encyclopedias, Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary Place)--Encyclopedias
A WILLIAM FAULKNER ENCYCLOPEDIA A WILLIAM FAULKNER ENCYCLOPEDIA Edited by Robert W. Hamblin and...London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A William Faulkner encyclopedia / edited by Robert W. Hamblin and...
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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
...me? In 1988, American novelist William Styron, prompted by the "mystified...Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "William Styron, 81, Novelist Who Transcended...Rose. "Strands." N. Casey 126-37. Styron, William. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of...
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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. Firestone...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 fact this new...James L. West III, William Styron: A Life. Random House , 1998...novels really are about is, again, William Styrons quite personal attempt, as a white...
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Border Narratives: Three First-Person Accounts of Depression
Journal article by Tina Stern; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 36, 2003
Subjects: Antidepressants, Depression (Mood disorder)--Research, Depression, Mental--Research, Solomon, Andrew, Styron, William
...Three authors, William Styron, Jeffery Smith, and Andrew Solomon...atmosphere, ubiquitous and inescapable. William Styron describes depression as a "tempest...therapy. Unlike Smith and Solomon, William Styron does not attempt to rewrite his...
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Prozac Americans: Depression, Identity, and Selfhood
Journal article by Abigail Cheever; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Depression, Mental--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Identity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature and mental illness--Analysis, Percy, Walker--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Styron, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Visible: A Memoir of Madness, William Styron claims he decided to write his...Writers as diverse as Walker Percy, William Styron, and, most recently, Peter Kramer...be titled "The Confessions of William Styron" for its exposure of the author...
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magazine articles on: Styron William  - 77 results

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Brainstorm
Magazine article by Norman B. Bendroth; The Christian Century, Vol. 124, May 1, 2007
Subjects: Authors--Works, Darkness Visible (Styron, William) (Autobiography)--Criticism and interpretation, Styron, William--Works, Writers--Works
...early stages of Prozac, I began reading William Styrons Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. Most people knew Styron for his controversial novel The Confessions...Lesser known is this 84-page book that Styron penned after a severe bout with depression...
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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
...right. When Faulkner died, thirty-five years later, William Styron, riding in the funeral cortege, reckoned with just how...wrested ... out of nothingness" came "swarming" into Styrons mind with a "sense of utter reality." Marshall Frady...
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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...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-winning...
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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
...Profits and Pills. by William Styron In the spring of 19911 was...meeting billed as "A Conference With William Styron." At the conference, where there...The first question was, "Mr. Styron, that was quite a story about...
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A Melancholy of Mine Own
Magazine article by Joshua Wolf Shenk; Psychotherapy Networker, Vol. 25, July 2001
...recently experienced a renaissance. In Darkness Visible, William Styron charges that Meyer "had a tin ear for the finer rhythms...recently published Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression (William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins), edited by Nell...
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newspaper articles on: Styron William  - 39 results

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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
...Virginia gentlemans accent, the late William Styron who died Nov. 1 looked and sounded...experimental 1951 novel with echoes of William Faulkner that nonetheless seemed...do with class assignments. On a Styron kick now, and hoping I might be...
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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
...of the heart. Two decades ago, William Styron, a white novelist born in Virginia...color of the talented writer was. William Hawthorne was hardly an adulterous...black intellectuals who attacked Styrons "Nat Turner," as if trapped in...
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`Shadrach' Story Overcomes Defecys
Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, October 16, 1998
...literary pedigree: The source material is a story by William Styron; his daughter, Susanna Styron, makes her directing...Styron and Bridget Terry, based on a short story by William Styron RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes MAXIMUM RATING: FOUR...
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Hungary Honored with State Dinner: Writer-President Gets Cultural Feast
Newspaper article by Ann Geracimos; The Washington Times, June 9, 1999
...great many U.S. authors, including Susan Sontag and William Styron, both of whom were present. In his remarks to about...chairman, Steiner Equities Group, and Sylvia Steiner William Styron, writer, and Rose Styron, poet and human rights activist...
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Maw Makes His Choice; eSophie"s" Composer Sides with Tradition
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 22, 2006
Subjects: Composers, Concerts
...His 2002 opera is based on the William Styron novel that later was made into...discover that in spite of the film, William Styron still held all rights to his novel...is increasingly uncommon. Mr. Styron declined to pen a libretto but...
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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. Newport News, Va., grad. Duke...is a trilogy of autobiographical novellas. See Conversations with William Styron (1985), ed. by J. L. W. West 3d; biography by J. L. W. West 3d (1998...
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Monroe, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...later mission, to England, was even more disastrous. Monroe and William Pinkney struggled to arrive at a commercial treaty to end...Brown, 1959); biographies by G. Morgan (1921, repr. 1969), A. Styron (1945), and W. P. Cresson (1946, repr. 1971); studies by L...


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