Styron's daughter, Alexandra, said the author died of pneumonia at a hospital in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Styron, who had homes in Martha's Vineyard and Connecticut, had been in failing health for a ...

When the theater and film director James Lapine first met Rose Styron, he knew her as William Styron’s widow. He learned there was a lot more to her. By Glenn Kenny The poet and activist Rose Styron, ...

As in the decade after World War I, when the great American modernists — Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein and others — frolicked on the Left Bank, during the 1950s Paris was again the place to be. In ...

The momentous life of Pulitzer Prize winner William Styron is now chronicled in more than 1,000 of his letters compiled by his widow, Rose Styron.... Uncovered Letters Reveal A New Side Of William ...

William Styron titled his first novel Lie Down in Darkness and his final memoir Darkness Visible. His career followed shadowy paths of pain, guilt and madness. His death at 81 came after years of ...

Styron Visible: Naming the Evils That Humans Do At a time when many of his contemporaries were documenting the travails of middle-class life or excavating the geological layers of their own psyches, ...

When Gertrude Steindeclared those who came of age during World War I a lost generation, she did not anticipate that they would not be the last. The novels of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and ...