William Styron, Novelist, Dies at 81 Mr. Styron's early work, including "Lie Down in Darkness," won him wide recognition as a distinctive voice of the South, and an heir to William Faulkner. In ...
William Styron was one of the flamboyant literary figures of the 20th Century. He was a Southerner whose novel Lie Down in Darkness received immense acclaim when he was just 26 years old. He would go ...
When the theater and film director James Lapine first met Rose Styron, he knew her as William Styron’s widow. He learned there was a lot more to her. By Glenn Kenny The poet and activist Rose Styron, ...