To William Styron, late, of Styron's Acres, Roxbury, Connecticut - thank you for writing. BLOCK: That's Alan Cheuse, who teaches writing at George Mason University, remembering William Styron.

William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist from the American South whose explorations of difficult historical and moral questions earned him a place among the leading literary figures of ...

Styron was a liberal long involved in public causes, from supporting a Connecticut teacher suspended for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to advocating for human rights for Jews in the ...

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 ...

Styron was recalled to the Marines in 1951, just as “Lie Down in Darkness” was being published, and his second book — “The Long March” — drew on his experiences at Camp Lejeune, N.C.