Biography EssayThe critics received Lie Down in Darkness (1951) as an auspicious first novel, perhaps the best to appear since World War II. If reminiscent of Faulkner, its style was distinctly the au...
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William Styron (born 1925) was a Southern writer of novels and articles. His major works were Lie Down in Darkness,The Long March, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice. His major theme w...
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The critics received Lie Down in Darkness (1951) as an auspicious first novel, perhaps the best to appear since World War II. Its style, if reminiscent of Faulkner, was distinctly the author's own; it...
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William Styron 's first novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951), placed him in the vanguard of promising young American authors of the post-World War II era, along with such writers as J. D. Salinger, Nor...
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William Styron is a major American novelist who has won wide critical acclaim and stirred controversy by addressing culturally and historically contentious issues. Though not a prolific writer, he has...
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Critical Essay by John Gardner
"Sophie's Choice" is a courageous, in some ways masterly book, a book very hard to review for the simple reason that the plot—even the doubl...
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Critical Essay by Robert Alter
[In Sophie's Choice Styron] tries to address himself simultaneously to some of the fundamental issues of his own life as a writer and to a central dilemma of the...
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Critical Essay by Edith Milton
Sophie's Choice is an ambiguous, masterful, and enormously satisfying novel. It reconstructs Auschwitz, the ultimate system of falsehood organized, from the vant...
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Critical Essay by Julian Symons
[Sophie's Choice] is divided into two parts that are not very closely stitched together. The Stingo-Sophie-Nathan relationship is one part, Sophie's life...
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Critical Essay by Paul Levy
[Much of Sophie's Choice is concerned with Sophie's experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau] and the diabolical choice she is forced to make there. There is anothe...
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Humbler AmbitionsBorn in
New Jersey
in 1949, the young
Mary
(as she was originally named) received professional singing lessons before she was even in her teens. Thoughts of stardom were far fr...
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Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible f...
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Oct 25 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on November 1 since 1900: 1914 - Five German cruisers sank the British ships Good Hope
and Monmouth at the Battle of Coro...
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American novelist (b. June 11, 1925,
Newport News, Va.
—d. Nov. 1, 2006, Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts
), was noted for his treatment of tragic themes and his use of a rich, classical pr...
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The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6...
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Episcopal bishops, under intense pressure from Anglicans to ease their support for gays, said Monday they were crafting a straightforward statement that reflects their deep desire to remain in the ...
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Within the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, leng...
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Salon’s Washington bureau chief, Walter Shapiro, wrote a book about the last presidential election, but he was done reporting on it before the thing had even properly started, and the book, t...
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Faced with declining circulation, many U.S. newspapers are trying to engage readers by allowing them to respond to news stories online. But the anonymity of the Internet lets readers post obsceniti...
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William Styron
William Styron
Critical Essay by John Gardner
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