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William Styron


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William Styron (1925–2006), born in Newport News, Virginia, was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. Styron published his first book, Lie Down in Darkness, at age twenty-six and went on to write such influential works as the controversial and Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner and the international bestseller Sophie’s Choice.
 
 
Novels
   The Confessions of Nat Turner (1951)
   Lie Down in Darkness (1951)
   The Long March (1953)
   Set This House on Fire (1960)
   A Death in Canaan (1976)
   Shadrach (1979)
   Sophie's Choice (1979)
   Mr Jefferson and Our Times (1984)
   Inheritance of Night (1993)
   The Way of the Warrior (1996)
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William Styron recommends
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On the River Styx (1989)
Peter Matthiessen
"An original and powerful artist... who has produced as impressive body of work as that of any writer of our time. He has immeasurably enlarged our consciousness."
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Let Us Build Us a City (1986)
Donald Harington
"A tender, droll, captivating book that tells much about our country, past and present."

Anthologies containing stories by William Styron
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The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Joyce Carol Oates and Shannon Ravenel

Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1968) : The Confessions of Nat Turner
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (1980) : Sophie's Choice


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