William Styron is an American writer born the June 11th 1925 in a village close to Newport News, Virginia (the United States). It is deceased on November 1st, 2006, with Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (the United States), at the 81 years age.

Biography

It takes part in the Second world war and the Guerre of Korea with the marine , army corps in which it says to be committed, at 17 years, by a suicidal puff of bravado .

In 1952, it founds celebrates it Paris Review.

He marries in 1953 the poetess Pink Burgunder, with which he will have four children.

He obtains in 1968 the Prix Pulitzer for his novel the confessions of Nat Turner ( The Confessions off Nat Turner ) published in 1967 but its most famous work, published in 1979, is the Choice of Sophie ( Sophie' S Choice )

Novels

• On a bed of darkness ( Dregs Down in Darkness , 1951) rewarded for the price of Rome by the American Academy for Arts and Sciences
• the Prey of the flames ( Set This House one Fire , 1960)
• Confessions of Nat Turner ( The Confessions off Nat Turner , 1967)
• the Choice of Sophie ( Sophie' S Choice , 1979)

News

• the Walk of night ( The Long March , 1963)

Theater

• In the Clap Shack (1973)

Autobiographical texts

• Vis-a-vis darkness ( Visible Darkness , 1990)
• One morning in Virginia ( has Tidewater Morning , 1993)