William Styron, who died on Wednesday aged 81, was the author of Sophie's Choice (1979), a novel of more than 250,000 words which told the story of a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz living in ...

When I first met William Styron, in the summer of 2001, he was frail, barely back on his feet after a brutal bout with depression. I met him and his wife, Rose, at a bookstore where we read from ...

William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Sophie's Choice" and other novels whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal ...

The poet and activist Rose Styron, 95, had to be talked into writing about herself and the many luminaries she has known. “I don’t like looking backward,” she said. Rose Styron in Vineyard Haven, ...

With the publication of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner in 1967, many American black activists declared open season on the book and its author. Styron, who has died of pneumonia at his ...