The poet and activist Rose Styron, 95, had to be talked into writing about herself and the many luminaries she has known. “I don’t like looking backward,” she said. Rose Styron in Vineyard Haven, ...

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 ...

Mr. Styron's novel has been given a Pulitzer Prize. Considering the wide critical success the book enjoyed, this result was foreseeable. Most of the novel's acclaim is explained to be due to these ...

Rose Styron's new memoir chronicles her star-studded exploits with her novelist husband, Bill Styron. Dustin Wayne Harris/PatrickMcMullan.com See more of our coverage in your search results. When she ...

With the publication of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner in 1967, many American black activists declared open season on the book and its author. Styron, who has died of pneumonia at his ...

William Styron, the novelist from the American South whose explorations of difficult historical and moral questions earned him a place among the leading literary figures of the post-World War II ...

Alexandra Styron isn’t afraid to say it, said Bob Minzesheimer in USA Today. Her father, the titanic Southern writer William Styron, who died in 2006, could be, as she puts it, a “monumental a--hole.” ...

William Styron's Southern family drama "Lie Down in Darkness" is getting another shot at the big screen thanks to "Boys Don't Cry" producer Jeffrey Sharp. By Steven Zeitchik, The Associated Press ...

William Styron, who died on Wednesday aged 81, was the author of Sophie's Choice (1979), a novel of more than 250,000 words which told the story of a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz living in ...

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 ...