William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925. He is best known for two controversial novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie's Choice (1979), which deals with the Holocaust.
After a brief stint in the Marine Corps during World War II, Styron graduated from Duke University in 1947. He worked briefly in New York as an associate editor for McGraw-Hill, and in 1951 he published his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, for which Styron was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His other works included A Tidewater Morning, a collection of fiction pieces, This Quiet Dust, a book of essays, and the best-selling memoir Darkness Visible, in which Styron recalled nearly taking his own life. He died at age 81 on November 1, 2006.
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