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William Styron
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born
June 11, 1925
in Newport News, Virginia, The United States
died
November 01, 2006
gender
male
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Sophie's Choice
  4.09 avg rating — 20,291 ratings
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1976
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57 editions
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Darkness Visible
  3.95 avg rating — 4,046 ratings
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published
1990
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25 editions
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
3.89 avg rating — 3,198 ratings
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published
1967
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31 editions
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Lie Down in Darkness
3.94 avg rating — 735 ratings
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published
1951
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26 editions
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A Tidewater Morning
3.73 avg rating — 328 ratings
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published
1993
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13 editions
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Set This House on Fire
3.76 avg rating — 266 ratings
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published
1960
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13 editions
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The Long March
3.57 avg rating — 134 ratings
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published
1952
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11 editions
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Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
4.03 avg rating — 63 ratings
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published
2008
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4 editions
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This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings
4.00 avg rating — 48 ratings
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published
1982
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7 editions
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The Suicide Run
3.35 avg rating — 55 ratings
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2009
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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
― William Styron
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
― William Styron
― William Styron
“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
― William Styron
― William Styron
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