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 ''.

The novelist William Styron told Summers that he once saw Hoover and Tolson in a California beach house, where the director was painting his friend's toenails.

" 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.

* June 11 – William Styron, American writer ( d. 2006 )

* 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.

Famous residents of Tisbury have included: Art Buchwald, William Styron, Mike Wallace, Lillian Hellman, Carly Simon, Thornton Wilder, Dashiell Hammett, Katharine Cornell, and Diane Sawyer.

* 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.

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

William Styron was born in the Hilton Village historic district of Newport News, Virginia.

William Styron was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca in 1985.

The most prominent feature of Port Warwick is William Styron Square along with its two main boulevards, Loftis Boulevard and Nat Turner Boulevard, named after characters in Styron's novels.

* James L. W. West III, Conversations with William Styron, Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1985.

* James L. W. West III, William Styron: A Life, New York: Random House, 1998.

* Charlie Rose with William Styron, A discussion about mental illness, 50-minute interview

* William Styron interview with William Waterway Marks on " The Vineyard Voice "/ 1989 / covers a range of topics.

*" An Appreciation of William Styron ", Charlie Rose ,-55-minute-long video

* A Conversation with William Styron on-line reprint of interview published in Humanities, 18, 3 ( 1997 ),

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But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

Willis listened patiently, and once in a while William was exposed to them at a family gathering ; ;

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

William F. Albright dated his reign to 869 – 850 BC, while E. R. Thiele offered the dates 874 – 853 BC.

William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.

John of Worcester says that the group supporting Edgar vacillated over what to do while William ravaged the countryside, which led to Ealdred and Edgar's submission to William.

Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

William York Tindall, in his 1962 study, A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas, finds comparison between Thomas ' and Joyce's wordplay, while he notes the themes of rebirth and nature are common to the works of Lawrence and Thomas.

British Commando and other elite units were issued an especially slender dagger, the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife, developed by William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes from real-life close-combat experiences gained while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police Force.

Of the British only one, Dr. William Brydon, reached Jalalabad, while a few others were captured.

While he volunteered for militia service in 1757 in response to French movements resulting in the Siege of Fort William Henry, his unit received word while en route that the fort had fallen, and turned back.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

Thompson's first major work was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party.

The scientist William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete ( 1600 ), that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction and repulsion of objects, were distinct effects.

" The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis ( 1850 ) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.

His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.

The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 – 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.

William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham may have become aware of the offensive representation after a public performance ; he may also have learned of it while it was being prepared for a court performance ( Cobham was at that time Lord Chamberlain ).

Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.