In 1939, when Billy Styron was 14 years old, his mother died after a long and painful illness. Coming as it did when he was at an especially vulnerable age, her death must have had deep and lasting ...

William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal demons, died yesterday in Martha’s ...

CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - 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. Sign up here.