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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 ...
She married William Styron in 1953 and they remained together until his death in 2006 at the age of 81. ... Rose Styron and William Styron In Hartford, CT, May 6, 1968. Getty Images.
Rose Styron doesn’t come off as a name dropper but rather a friend and vital participant as she recounts her and William’s encounters over the years with such luminaries as President Kennedy ...
Rose Styron may not be as well known as her late husband, William Styron, the celebrated author of such novels as “The Confessions of Nat Turner” and “Sophie’s Choice.” But with James ...
At 95, Rose Styron, the widow of the celebrated novelist William Styron and a journalist, poet and activist in her own right, is now the focus of James Lapine’s documentary “In the Company of ...
Rose and William Styron. When he had depression in the 1980s she encouraged him to write “Darkness Visible,” the memoir that has become one of his best known works.
In January 1974, the poet, mother of four and wife of novelist William Styron was with her eldest daughter in Chile doing her first “undercover work” for Amnesty International.