[DOC] [TLE] William Styron - Wikipedia [PAR] After provoking his employers into firing him, he set about writing his first novel in 
earnest. Three years later, he published the novel, Lie Down in Darkness... [DOC] [TLE] William Styron - Obituary - The New York Times [PAR] Nov 2, 2006 ... The cause was pneumonia, coming after many years of illness, his ... Turner and 
Sophie's Choice, he transcended his own immediate ... 26 when Lie Down in 
Darkness, his first novel, was published in 1951. .... He graduated in 1942. .... 4, 
2006. An obituary on Thursday about the novelist William Styron... [DOC] [TLE] From Slavery to Holocaust, Author Bill Styron Makes Best-Selling ... [PAR] Jul 23, 1979 ... Rising late in his Martha's Vineyard summer house, William Styron shuffles about 
in his ... Even before its publication, Sophie's Choice grossed $3 million in 
subsidiary ... Styron left after his freshman year to join the Marines. ... The novel 
he began there, Lie Down in Darkness, was published when he was... [DOC] [TLE] Five Interesting Facts About William Styron - Books Tell You Why [PAR] Jun 11, 2016 ... Legendary Authors ... After graduating from Duke University following a stint in 
the United States ... found a job at McGraw-Hill as a reader for the publishing 
house. ... Styron's first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, earned him the Prix de 
Rome ... Styron had to delay his year in Rome until after his military service... [DOC] [TLE] William Styron - Topics [PAR] Early years Styron was born in the Hilton Village historic district of Newport News, 
Virginia . ... Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first work, published at 
age 26; ..... Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron . 
... After graduating from Duke University in 1947, Styron took an editing position... [DOC] [TLE] The Early Apprenticeship of William Styron - ProQuest [PAR] Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his first novel, brought Styron widespread acclaim. 
... And now, after the recent success of Sophie's Choice (1979), critical interest in 
his ... Between 1944 and 1946 Styron published a total of seven stories in Duke's 
... 4 "Sun on the River" was published in The Archive in April of the same year. [DOC] [TLE] Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron ... [PAR] Jan 28, 1992 ... Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of .... A meditation on 
Styron's ( Sophie's Choice ) serious depression at the age of 60, ... Nearly 40 
years ago, Styron published his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness , which ... was a 
graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. [DOC] [TLE] A Biography of William Styron - Darkness Visible [PAR] He was one of the preeminent American authors of his generation. ... Styron was 
called up into the marines after just four terms at Duke, but World War II ended ... 
financial support while his son wrote his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951). 
Published when Styron was twenty-six years old, Lie Down in Darkness was a... [DOC] [TLE] Selected Letters of William Styron by William Styron ... [PAR] The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, and 
he ... Sophie's Choice was awarded the 1980 National Book Award, and 
Darkness ... I felt his beguiling presence all the while that I was enjoying one 
letter after another. ... Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of 
Duke University. [DOC] [TLE] Book Review: Selected Letters of William Styron - WSJ [PAR] Nov 30, 2012 ... 30, 2012 4:51 p.m. ET. William Styron, the author of "Lie Down in Darkness," "The 
Confessions of Nat Turner" and "Sophie's Choice," among other ... note in his 
dozens of letters to William Blackburn, his writing mentor at Duke, with whom he 
stayed in touch for more than 20 years after graduating in 1947. [DOC] [TLE] William Styron Facts - Biography

Question: 4 years after graduating from Duke, this "Sophie's Choice" author published his 1st novel, "Lie Down in Darkness"
Answer: William Styron