name: William Styron
birth_date: 1925-06-11 00:00:00
death_date: 2006-11-01 00:00:00
genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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about: 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.