Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 11. Juni 1925 |
Geburtsort | Newport News, Virginia, U.S. |
Todesort | Martha's_Vineyard,_Massachusetts |
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Beschreibung | 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 Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn". |
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
