William Styron

Person · Open Library

Born

1925

Died

2006

Works

127

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Writing · Newport News, Virginia, USA

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…

Known for

• Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property — Self2003
• Mark Twain — Self (uncredited)2002
• Mark Twain — self2002
• Dead Blue: Surviving Depression — Self1998
• Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski1995
• The Painted Boy — Self/Writer1995
• Naked in New York — Self1993
• James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket — Self1989
• Apostrophes — Self1975

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

45

Total plays

173

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 61,500x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,866x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,975x

4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,722x

5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

   · 1958 · cited 28,525x

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Quotes

• “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
• “The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
• “I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”
• “It could be all unwittingly that I wrote in Darkness Visible what amounted to a Rosetta stone for my other work.”
• “My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.”
• “I shivered in the knowledge of the futility of all ambition. My mouth was sour with the yellow recollection of death and blood-smeared fields and walls. I watched the girl slip away, vanish without a hand laid upon her. Who knows but whether we were not doomed to lose. I know nothing any longer. Nothing. Did I really wish to vouchsafe a life for the one that I had taken?”

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Key facts

Born

William Clark Styron Jr. , June 11, 1925 ( 1925-06-11 ) , Newport News, Virginia , U.S.

Died

November 1, 2006 (2006-11-01) (aged 81), Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts , U.S.

Occupation

Novelist, essayist

Education

Davidson College , Duke University ( BA )

Period

1951–2006

Notable works

Lie Down in Darkness , The Confessions of Nat Turner , Sophie's Choice , Darkness Visible

Spouse

Rose Burgunder ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 ) ​

Children

4, including Alexandra and Susanna

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Wikidata facts

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