The Virginian Pilot, April 26th, 1998
Byline: JAMES E. PERSON JR.
WILLIAM STYRON
A Life
JAMES L. W. WEST III
Random House. 506 pp. $30.
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie's Choice (1979), William Styron is at once a giant among 20th century American novelists and a difficult man to know and understand. A quiet, solitary man given to long silences, he has struggled fiercely with chronic depression for several years, working hard to hold body and soul together.
Even James L. W. West III, an English professor at Pennsylvania State University and Styron's authorized biographer, fou...
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