Random House, 1968. — 432 p. In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The...
Random House, 1968. — 432 p. In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The...
Ed. by James L. W. West III; foreword by Rose Styron. — Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 2009. — ISBN: 978-0-8071-3400-9. From 1943 to 1953, William Styron wrote over one hundred letters to his father, detailing his adventures and works in progress, and ruminating on the craft of writing. In all of American literature, no other extended series of such...
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant...
Open Road Integrated Media: New York, 2010. — 409 p. First published in 1952. The novel is about the disintegration of a southern family, the Loftises. The immediate setting is the funeral of one of the daughters, Peyton, a suicide. But the conflicts between the narcissistic, alcoholic father and the emotionally disturbed mother, the hate between mother and daughter, and the...
Open Road Integrated Media: New York, 2010. — 294 p. First published in 1952. The novel is about the disintegration of a southern family, the Loftises. The immediate setting is the funeral of one of the daughters, Peyton, a suicide. But the conflicts between the narcissistic, alcoholic father and the emotionally disturbed mother, the hate between mother and daughter, and the...
New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010. — 45 p. First published in 1990 by Random House. William Styron (1925–2006) was a Southern writer of novels and articles. His major works were Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice . His major theme was the response of basically decent people to such cruelties of life as war, slavery,...
RosettaBooks LLC, New York, 2000. — 339 p. First published in 1967. A novel of shocking power and magnificent rage, William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner remains one of the boldest and most moving explorations in American fiction of the horror of slavery. Styron puts himself inside the mind of Nat Turner, a real historical figure who led a slave rebellion in Virginia...
Open Road Integrated Media: New York. — 351 p. Styron's novel Set This House on Fire (1960) is a book with rape and two murders at its center. Two friends, Peter Leveritt and Cass Kinsolving, visiting together in Charleston, recall the events which took place three years earlier when they were guests at a villa in Sambucco, Italy. Though Peter is the narrator, many critics...
Open Road Integrated Media: New York. — 547 p. Styron's novel Set This House on Fire (1960) is a book with rape and two murders at its center. Two friends, Peter Leveritt and Cass Kinsolving, visiting together in Charleston, recall the events which took place three years earlier when they were guests at a villa in Sambucco, Italy. Though Peter is the narrator, many critics...
Open Road Integrated Media: New York. — 361 p. Since the 1979 first edition of Sophie’s Choice the novel has been re-imagined as an Academy Award-winning movie in 1982 and later as an opera, premiering in London in 2002. Despite the fact that Sophie’s Choice won the American Book Award for fiction and served as an inspiration for a powerful film and opera, the novel continues...
1980 US National Book Award for Fiction. Published: 1979. Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past-one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010. — ISBN: 978-1-936317-29-5. 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. That Styron survived his descent into madness is something of a miracle. That he manages to convey its tortuous progression and his...