* 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

* The Confessions of Nat Turner ( 1967 ), a novel by William Styron, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968.

Late authors Shel Silverstein and William Styron also lived on the Vineyard, as did writer, journalist and teacher John Hersey, poet and novelist Dorothy West and artist Thomas Hart Benton Various writers have been inspired by the island — including the mystery writer Philip Craig who set several novels on the island.

For this novel, Styron received the prestigious Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Baldwin's prediction was correct, and despite public defenses of Styron by leading artists of the time, figures such as Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, numerous other black critics reviled Styron ’ s portrayal of Turner as racist stereotyping.

* In an episode of the television series Cheers titled " Thanksgiving Orphans " ( this episode first aired in 1986 ), Styron is mentioned as an esteemed guest of a Thanksgiving party hosted by one of Diane Chambers ' literature professors.

Sophie's Choice is a novel by American author William Styron, that was published in 1979.

Similarly, by placing a non-Jewish character at the center of an Auschwitz story, Styron suggests the universality of the suffering under the Third Reich.

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* In North Towards Home, Willie Morris quotes Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial from memory as he walks up Park Avenue with William Styron: "' And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes …' At that instant I was almost clipped by a taxicab, and the driver stuck his head out and yelled, ' Aincha got eyes in that head, ya bum?

Although his major works, including Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring, would not be free of the label of obscenity until 1962, their themes and stylistic innovations had already exerted a major influence on succeeding generations of American writers, and paved the way for sexually frank 1960s novels by John Updike, Philip Roth, Gore Vidal, John Rechy and William Styron.

The novel Sophie's Choice by William Styron ( 1979 ), set in the postwar years of World War II, also makes reference to Bilbo.

" Early issues included articles by such writers as Hardwick, Lowell, Jason Epstein, Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Truman Capote, Paul Goodman, Lillian Hellman, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Dwight Macdonald, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Norman Podhoretz, Philip Rahv, Susan Sontag, William Styron, Gore Vidal, Robert Penn Warren and Edmund Wilson.

* Nathan Landau, a character in the novel Sophie's Choice by William Styron

His screenplay, based on the novel by William Styron, was nominated for an Academy Award.

* Sophie's Choice ( novel ), 1979 novel written by William Styron

A simple editorial statement, penned in the inaugural issue by William Styron, stated the magazine's aim:

* The Long March, a 1956 novel by William Styron

The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by U. S. writer William Styron.

Category: Novels by William Styron

*" Shadrach ," a 1978 short story by William Styron

Set This House on Fire is a novel by William Styron, set in Italy centred on the themes of evil and redemption.

Category: Novels by William Styron

* William Styron, writer, lived for a year while writing his acclaimed first novel Lie Down in Darkness ( novel ).,

The author William Styron refers to the town in his short story " My Father's House ," first published posthumously in 2009.

French President François Mitterrand invited Styron to his first presidential inauguration and later made him a commander of the Legion of Honor.

Maw wrote the libretto and composed the music ( Maw had at first approached Styron about writing the libretto, but he declined ).

Styron and other guests at the party are expected to recreate the first Thanksgiving.

Susanna Styron adapted the novel for a CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame production that first aired on November 21, 2004.

Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

" Jamison is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association's William Styron Award ( 1995 ), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Research Award ( 1996 ), the Community Mental Health Leadership Award ( 1999 ), and was a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

William Clark Styron, Jr. ( June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006 ) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including:

Styron joined the Marine Corps, but was discharged in 1952 for eye problems.

The year 1953 was eventful for Styron in another way.

Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible ( 1990 ), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.

Styron himself was appointed to design a " naming plan " for Port Warwick in order to name the " remaining streets and parks in Port Warwick Styron decided to honor great American writers ".

* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner

In addition to Ray Bradbury, the judges included: Nobel Laureate for Literature, Nadine Gordimer, novelists Wallace Stegner, Peter Matthiessen, William Styron and Rodney Hall as well as Betty and Ian Ballantine, founders of Ballantine Books.

* March 2010 – Bain acquired Styron ( polystyrene, latex ), a division of The Dow Chemical Company, for $ 1. 6 billion.

* William Styron ( USA )-Pulitzer Prize 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner, PWF 2006