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	William Styron, unlikely bard of depression. - By Nell Casey - Slate Magazine
		When I first met William Styron, in the summer of 2001, he was frail, barely back on his feet after a brutal bout with depression.
		Styron disliked the term depression, calling it "a true wimp of a word for such a major illness." Nonetheless, it was this word—and illness—that came to define the last third of his life.
		Styron was certainly not the first celebrated writer to produce a personal account of his own emotional plunge.
	www.slate.com /id/2153024 (1191 words)

	William Styron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, not far from the site of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, later the source for his most famous and controversial novel.
		Styron’s childhood was a difficult one: his father, a shipyard engineer, suffered from the clinical depression Styron himself would later inherit, and his mother died of cancer before Styron’s fourteenth birthday.
		Styron then enrolled in Duke University, which would later grant him a B.A. in English; here Styron also published his first fiction, a short story heavily influenced by William Faulkner, in an anthology of student work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Styron (870 words)

	Anyara-Essays - William Styron and Depression
		And William Styron is a vry good example of a clinical depression: In 1985 he was hospitalized for several months because of a severe clinical depression.
		William Styron was born on June 11, 1925 22:15 (EST Newport News, VA, 76W25, 36N59 - according to Data News 27).
		Styron, who was a successful writer with several bestsellers and even a Pulitzer prize, had, according to his own words, a background of drinking too much for forty years.
	koti.mbnet.fi /neptunia/essays/marsws1.htm (794 words)

	The Confessions of William Styron (December 199) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Styron, 73, made a rare public appearance at the Library of Congress, where he defended The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was labeled racist in the 1960s, and announced that Spike Lee may make a movie about it.
		Styron's first biographer he wanted to establish the discourse as "high and serious." To do so, he used the Styron papers at both the Library and Duke University, interviewed friends and relatives and talked with Mr.
		Styron's life and career for more than 20 years, chronicling not just the literary career but his family background and political activism, including his presence at the 1968 Democratic national convention in Chicago, and his long-term opposition to the death penalty.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9812/styron.html (1125 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: William Styron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Styron lived for a short time in Paris, where he wrote his novel The Long March (1953) and participated in founding the literary magazine The Paris Review, of which he is still...
		William Styron traces the betrayals and infidelities--the heritage of spite and endlessly disappointed love--that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis.
		Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=30206 (448 words)

	'William Styron: A Life' by James West III
		James West's biography of William Styron is an immensely readable book, rich in its review of the history and times of its subject and containing the most authentic representation of a writer at work that this reader can remember.
		In these, Styron received invaluable demonstrations of style, but especially, he was drilled in the values of discipline and precision of expression, two entities that would sustain and distinguish his work habits and his work.
		Styron was given a Prix de Rome by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and from here on his ascent was greased with honey; the gods were clearly enamored.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980517review34.asp (1288 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: The Confessions of William Styron
		Styron, a self-proclaimed “white man from Tidewater Virginia” was widely criticized in the 1960s for The Confessions, which he wrote from the point of view of Nat Turner, a fl slave who led a insurrection during the height of American slavery.
		Styron later added, after a student had pointed out his disregard of slave spiritualism in the novel, that “there is only so much one can put in a novel.” He explained that every author must make choices when creating his protagonist and the world he inhabits.
		Styron was motivated by his Southern upbringing to write the novel; “segregation left a scar on [his] psyche.” He feels a distinct connection to the era of American slavery, because his own grandmother owned two slaves at the time of emancipation.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=104288 (677 words)

	The Seattle Times: Obituaries: William Styron, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at age 81
		William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose skillful explorations of the themes of evil, domination and redemption made him one of the finest writers of his generation, died Wednesday at age 81.
		Styron, the author of "The Confessions of Nat Turner," "Sophie's Choice" and "Lie Down in Darkness," died of pneumonia at Martha's Vineyard Hospital in Massachusetts, according to his daughter Alexandra Styron.
		Styron's novels were imbued with a tragic sense of history and usually were set in his native South or at least featured a central Southern character.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/obituaries/2003336835_styronobit02.html (342 words)

	styron william (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Born on June 11, 1925 in Newport News, Virginia, William Styron was the only child of William Clark Styron, a marine engineer, and Pauline Margaret Abraham.
		Styron, William American novelist noted for his treatment of tragic themes and his use of a rich, classical prose style.
		William Styron's 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' presents the events that led to the revolt of a privileged slave through the means of confession.
	www.academyhouse.bc.ca /styron-william.html (347 words)

	Styron, William: Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was during a trip to Paris in 1985 to accept a prestigious writing award that William Styron first realized that the melancholy which had been descending upon him for months was part of the onset of a crippling depression.
		In this brief book, Styron describes his own experience and eventual recovery, and touches upon the history and clinical aspects of depression as he talks about the many writers who have also been afflicted with this disease.
		Styron gives both a retrospective account of the beginnings of his illness, and details his own theories (his abrupt intolerance for alcohol, a possible family history, characters in his early writings in whom he described symptoms strikingly similar to those he would develop himself years later) about the origins of his depression.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/styron432-des-.html (244 words)

	Amazon.com: Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness (Vintage): Books: William Styron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1985 William Styron fell victim to a crippling and almost suicidal depression, the same illness that took the lives of Randall Jarrell, Primo Levi and Virginia Woolf.
		A meditation on Styron's (Sophie's Choice) serious depression at the age of 60, this essay evokes with detachment and dignity the months-long turmoil whose symptoms included the novelist's "dank joylessness," insomnia, physical aversion to alcohol (previously "an invaluable senior partner of my intellect") and his persistent "fantasies of self-destruction" leading to psychiatric treatment and hospitalization.
		Styron is candid about his descent into alcoholism, but the self-destruction inherent in alcoholism does not imply the elimination of ego, frequently it heralds the triumph of ego.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679736395?v=glance (2022 words)

	William Styron dies \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Styron's daughter, Alexandra, said the author died of pneumonia at Martha's Vineyard Hospital in Massachusetts, on Wednesday.
		Styron was a Virginia native, whose fascinations with race, class and personal guilt led to such tormented narratives as Lie Down in Darkness and The Confessions of Nat Turner, which won the Pulitzer Prize despite protests that the book was racist and inaccurate.
		The son of a shipbuilder, Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, to a family whose history extended to colonial Virginia.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,,1937554,00.html (513 words)

	William Styron
		Styron referred to his story as "less an 'historic novel' in conventional terms than a meditation on history," (Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, p.
		Styron does not present a primary character who yearns for freedom, but offers a Turner who must first learn to want to be free.
		Styron’s concept that freedom was not immediately desirable by all of those who did not possess it differed diametrically from the most traditional view of liberty.
	www.nathanielturner.com /williamstyronturner.htm (671 words)

	William Styron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925.
		Styron married Rose Burgunder in 1953 and settled in Roxbury, Connecticut, his current residence.
		The book received the Pulitzer Prize, but Styron's introspective and psychological portrayal of Nat Turner brought him immediate and bitter criticism, especially from some African-American authors who believed that Styron had little understanding of the slave experience and that Styron's Turner was tinged with racism.
	www.virginia.edu /~history/courses/courses.old/hius323/styron.html (242 words)

	A Conversation with William Styron
		Styron: A work like Darkness Visible, which is quite brief but has its own impact, is a kind of work, I think, which prompts a response on the part of readers to my other work.
		Styron: I read most of Camus by that time, and that included "The Myth of Sisyphus." There's something in the entire world view of Camus's which was similar to mine in the sense that I think we were both influenced by similar melancholic moods.
		Styron: I've heard it said that everybody who is the subject of a biography is going to usually have at least three biographies: one that is authorized and therefore respectful; followed by one that is unauthorized and intentionally disrespectful; and, finally, one that seeks to find a balance between the two.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/1997-05/styron2.html (3424 words)

	Virginia Libraries - volume 46, number 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Since March of this year, he and William Styron, the famed Virginia novelist, have appeared at bookstores and libraries throughout the Commonwealth to promote "All Virginia Reads Sophie's Choice, by William Styron," a joint project of the Library of Virginia, the Library of Virginia Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Book.
		Styron was extraordinarily generous to me, allowing me to see anything I asked to see and granting me permission to quote whatever I wanted to quote.
		Styron had many voices himself, in his fiction, letters, and interviews, stretching across a span of more than fifty years.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/VALib/v46_n3/kneebone.html (1913 words)

	William Styron
		Styron began writing seriously in 1942 when he attended Davidson College, contributing frequently to the school newspaper and composing poems for the literary magazine.
		It took Styron two and a half years of "extremely painful" composition to reach the memorable soliloquy which is the climax of his first novel.
		Styron is also a recipient of the 1993 National Medal of Arts, awarded to him by President Clinton in October.
	www.speakersworldwide.com /Styron.html (1132 words)

	Styron, William on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		William Styron's uncollected essays: history collides with literature.
		William Styron's Sophie's Choice: Poland, the South, and the tragedy of suicide.(Critical Essay)
		Sophie's Choice Author, William Styron, and Wife Poet Rose Styron to Deliver Keynote Speech; Opening Remarks by Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Styron-W1.asp (555 words)

	William Styron
		Styron himself took on the task of naming the remaining streets and parks in Port Warwick.
		In naming the various thoroughfares and squares of Port Warwick" says Styron, "I have chosen outstanding American literary figures from the nineteenth and twenty century.
		Styron attended the dedication of the Styron Square Pavilion in 2001, and while his health never allowed him to revisit Port Warwick, he stayed in constant communication with Port Warwick developer Bobby Freeman.
	www.portwarwick.com /styron.html (363 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - William Styron - Books: Meet the Writers
		Whether he is fictionalizing a slave uprising in The Confessions of Nat Turner or breaking the silence on clinical depression, William Styron's work has inspired not only accolades but national dialogues.He writes unrelentingly about the imprint of war and racism on America.
		Styron has credited Camus's The Stranger with influencing the structure and first-person narration of his controversial fictional account of the 1831 Virginia slave rebellion led by Nat Turner.
		As a white Southerner writing from the point of view of a slave, Styron was a natural target for critics; but his powerful, thoughtful portrait was generally hailed by reviewers.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=83453 (197 words)

	Multimedia Events - Library of Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Styron, one of America's leading novelists, appeared with James West III, author of William Styron: A Life, in this Books and Beyond program at the Library.
		Styron is known primarily for his novels such as Lie Down in Darkness (1951), The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), and Sophie's Choice (1989).
		Styron's life and career for more than 20 years, used the Styron papers at the Library of Congress and at Duke University in producing his biography.
	www.connectlive.com /events/libraryofcongress/styron110498 (218 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: William Styron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Styron was born in Newport News, Va., and graduated from Duke University in 1947, after serving in the Marine Corps.
		It was the publication of The Confessions of Nat Turner in 1967 that made Styron a cause célèbre in American letters.
		The Holocaust becomes a breathtaking personal drama, in the midst of a vast cataclysm, in William Styron's Sophie's Choice, a big and questing novel with autobiographical elements and a fearless determination to explore a particular human dimension of a historical nightmare.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/WilliamStyroneBooks.htm (591 words)

	idaho mountain express : A conversation with William Styron : august 22 - 28, 2001
		Styron then moved to Paris in the early ’50s, and with friends Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton created "The Paris Review," a literary magazine that has continued to publish fine writing for half a century.
		In the mid-80s, Styron suffered a major case of depression that nearly cost him his life.
		Styron and his wife Rose will travel to Sun Valley next week to participate in the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, held Monday through Thursday.
	www.mtexpress.com /2001/01-08-22/01-08-22styron.htm (1099 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Styron (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He became well known for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967; Pulitzer Prize), a fictional recreation of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia led by Nat Turner.
		Because Styron's account dos not strictly adhere to historical fact and because he is a white man depicting a fl man's experiences, the novel elicited harsh criticism, especially from fl intellectuals.
		Styron's other novels include Lie Down in Darkness (1951), Set This House on Fire (1960), and Sophie's Choice (1979).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Styron-W.html (252 words)

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