Question: What industry were both William Styron and Anne Sextona part of?

Context articles: Shadrach (film)
Anne Sexton
Sophie's Choice (film)
Irving Malin
Susanna Styron
Virginia literature
William Styron
San Remo Cafe
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Leonard Bishop

Shadrach is a 1998 American film directed by Susanna Styron, based on a short story by her father William Styron, about a former slave's struggle to be buried where he chooses.
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse.
 She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book "Live or Die".
 Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children.
Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who adapted William Styron's novel "Sophie's Choice".
 Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a Polish immigrant who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline in his feature film debut), and a young writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol).
Irving Malin (March 18, 1934 – December 3, 2014) was an American literary critic.
 Malin attended Thomas Jefferson High School and Jamaica High School and graduated magna cum laude from Queens College in 1955 and received his PhD.
 from Stanford University in 1958.
 He married Ruth Lief in 1955 and they remained married until his death.
 He taught at the City College of New York from 1960 until his retirement in 1996.
 Malin did his dissertation on the fiction of William Faulkner and made his initial academic mark as a critic of American Jewish Literature, editing an early collection on the fiction of Saul Bellow as well as a critical book and a general anthology on Jewish literature in the US.
 He subsequently became interested in writers who practiced innovative techniques such as James Purdy and John Hawkes as well as writers who broke down the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction such as William Styron and Truman Capote.
 One of the pioneering academics to take an interest in metafiction and experimental writing, Malin was an early contributor to the "Review of Contemporary Fiction", writing over five hundred book reviews for this and other publications (like the "Hollins Critic").
 In the latter portion of his career, Malin edited several anthologies of essays on Henry James, Thomas Pynchon, William Goyen, George Garrett, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, Leslie Fiedler, and William Gass.
 He was a fellow at Yaddo and the Huntington Library and served on many boards and award panels.
 Malin died December 3, 2014.
Susanna Styron (born 1955) is an American film and documentary maker.
 She is one of the four children (three girls and one boy) of writer and novelist William Styron (1925-2006) and his wife, Rose.
The literature of Virginia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
 Representative authors include Rita Dove, Ellen Glasgow, William Hoffman, Lee Smith, and William Styron.
 Journals featuring work of Virginia writers include the "New Virginia Review" (est. 1978), "Richmond Quarterly" (est. 1980), "Edgar Allan Poe Review" (est. 2000), and "Virginia Adversaria" (est. 2000).
William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.
The San Remo Cafe was a bar at 93 MacDougal Street at the corner of Bleecker Street in the New York City neighborhood of Greenwich Village.
 It was a hangout for Bohemians and writers such as James Agee, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Miles Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, William Styron, Dylan Thomas, Gore Vidal, Judith Malina and many others.
 It opened in 1925 closed in 1967.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by U.S. writer William Styron.
 Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns the slave revolt in Virginia in 1831.
 It is based on "The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia", a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.
Leonard Bishop (1922–2002) was a novelist, writing teacher, and newspaper columnist.
 He wrote for over five decades, only stopping two weeks before his death in 2002.
 He has worked alongside other famous authors such as Mario Puzo, William Styron, Joseph Heller, Richard Wright, and Harlan Ellison.
 Bishop has been recognized as one of the seven top writing teachers in the United States.
 His career in writing and teaching is archived at Boston University in the Leonard Bishop Collection.