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William Styron
Author profile
born
in Newport News, Virginia, The United States
June 11, 1925
died
November 01, 2006
gender
male
genre
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Sophie's Choice
— published 1979 — 73 editions |
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
— published 1990 — 32 editions |
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
— published 1967 — 34 editions |
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Lie Down in Darkness
— published 1951 — 33 editions |
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A Tidewater Morning
— published 1993 — 16 editions |
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Set This House on Fire
— published 1960 — 15 editions |
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The Long March
— published 1952 — 11 editions |
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Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
— published 2008 — 7 editions |
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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings
— published 1982 — 10 editions |
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The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps
— published 2009 — 11 editions |
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
― William Styron
― William Styron
“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama — a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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