William Styron

William Styron is an American novelist, born in Newport News, Virginia on June 11, 1925. He is best known for two controversial novels: the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt, and Sophie's Choice (1979) which deals with the Holocaust.

Bibilography

• Lie Down in Darkness, 1951
• The Long March, 1952 (serial), 1956 (book)
• Set This House on Fire, 1960
• The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1967
• Sophie's Choice, 1979
• This Quiet Dust, and Other Writings, 1982, expanded 1993
• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, 1990
• A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth, 1993