William Styron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Styron

American novelist and essayist

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1925

Place of Birth: Newport News, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 01-Nov-2006

Profession: writer, military personnel

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

William Clark Styron Jr.
(June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.Styron was best known for his novels, including: Lie Down in Darkness (1951), his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26; The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginian slave revolt; Sophie's Choice (1979), a story "told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn".In 1985, he suffered from his first serious bout with depression.
Once he recovered from his illness, Styron was able to write the memoir Darkness Visible (1990), the work he became best known for during the last two decades of his life.