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Name: William Styron
Birth Date: January 11, 1925
Place of Birth: Newport News, Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Styron
1,082 words, approx. 4 pages
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 was the response of basically decent people to such...
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Biography of William Styron
10,165 words, approx. 34 pages
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; its psychological insights, accurate; and its moral...
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Biography of William Styron
10,139 words, approx. 34 pages
The 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 author's own; its psychological insights, accurate; and its moral...
 


Quotations
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William Styron Quotes
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William Clark Styron, Jr. ( June 11 , 1925 – November 1 , 2006 ) was an American novelist. He is best known for two controversial novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner , the leader of an 1831...


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Styron, William (1925—) Summary
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The novels of William Styron have won major literary awards, received tremendous popular attention, and been the subject of controversy. Styron's two best known novels, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie's Choice (1979), deal...
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William Styron Information
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William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11 1925 – November 1 2006) was an eminent American novelist and essayist. Before the publication of his memoir Darkness Visible in 1990, Styron was best known for his novels which...


News and Journals
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William Styron (1925-2006).(Biography)
01/01/2007: 664 words, approx. 2 pages
WILLIAM STYRON, WHO DIED on November 1, 2006, left readers with many experiences and many shared lives--from the slave revolt described in THE Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) to the Holocaust aftermath detailed in Sophie's Choice (1979). As one of the leading novelists...
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The Economist (US)
As a writer, wilful and unrepentant; William Styron.
11/11/2006: 659 words, approx. 2 pages
His main problem was life Like many of his literary heroes, William Styron wrote to make sense of the world ON the door to William Styron's studio was a quotation from Gustave Flaubert: "Be regular and orderly in your life so...
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The New York Observer
Oh Norman, My Norman
11/13/2007: 451 words, approx. 2 pages
Who was Mailer? He growled, boxed, inhabited the Earth. Breslin: 'People think he was a crazed creature—he wasn't.' MORE ... The subject was old age. Norman Mailer said there was a grace in aging. He didn’t feel as angry or self-involved as he once did;...
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Norman Mailer, the writer as Writer
11/10/2007: 763 words, approx. 3 pages
His friends all tell similar stories: Norman Mailer at a dinner party, awards ceremony or afternoon gathering, hobbling on canes up or down a few steps or a flight of stairs, short of breath, as if getting from one place to another was a struggle...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Gavin Cologne-Brookes
6,491 words, approx. 22 pages
In this excerpt, Cologne-Brookes sees in The Long March signs of a change in Styron's emphases, from his earlier view that literature is a way to achieve harmony in a chaotic world to his later conviction that art is necessarily part of a dialogue with sociohistorical matters.
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Critical Essay by Marc L. Ratner
4,433 words, approx. 15 pages
Below, Ratner provides an overview of the techniques and symbolism that Styron uses in The Long March "enlarging the narrative into his general theme of rebellion."
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Critical Essay by Irving Malin
4,428 words, approx. 15 pages
In the excerpt below, Malin discusses symbolism, characterization, and Styron's use of body imagery and contrast.
 


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