William Styron

William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, and lost his mother in 1939, at the age of fourteen. He enlisted in the Marines in 1943, graduated from Duke, and worked briefly as a reader at McGraw-Hill, which dismissed him; recalled in 1951 during the Korean War, he was discharged. He produced five novels in thirty years, including one about a slave revolt that won him the Pulitzer Prize and sharp criticism from Black authors, then an account of his depression. He died in Massachusetts in 2006.

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• NovelSophie's ChoiceWilliam Styron · 1979Literature