Birthday
1925/06/11
Day of death
2006/11/01 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Newport News, Virginia, USA
Also know as
Bill Styron
William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. Styron was best known for his novels, including: Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26; The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt; Sophie's Choice (1979), a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholi...Read more
(1993) Naked in New York
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(2002) Mark Twain
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(2003) Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
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(1995) Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski
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(1989) James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
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(1995) The Painted Boy
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(2002) Mark Twain
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(1975) Apostrophes
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