William Styron

William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, USA on June 11th, 1925 and passed away at the age of 81 on November 1st, 2006.

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William Styron Stats: The highest rated book by William Styron on Book Notification is Sophie's Choice, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by William Styron on Book Notification is Sophie's Choice, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is Darkness Visible, a Non-Fiction book.

Below is a complete list of William Styron books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top standalone books are Sophie's Choice, Lie Down in Darkness, and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	8 The Confessions of Nat Turner	1951	Loading... Go
2	7 Lie Down in Darkness	1951	Loading... Go
3	The Long March	1952	Loading... Go
4	Set This House On Fire	1960	Loading... Go
5	7.3 Sophie's Choice	1979	Loading... Go
6	Shadrach	1979	Loading... Go
7	Inheritance of Night	1980	Loading... Go
8	Mr Jefferson and our times	1984	Loading... Go

List of Plays in Publication Order

	Read	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1		In the Clap Shack	1973	Loading... Go

List of Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top collections are A Tidewater Morning, The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps, and This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings.

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings	1982	Loading... Go
2	A Tidewater Morning	1993	Loading... Go
3	The Long March and In the Clap Shack	1993	Loading... Go
4	The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps	2009	Loading... Go

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Darkness Visible, My Generation, and Havanas in Camelot.

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	8 Darkness Visible	1990	Loading... Go
2	Fathers and Daughters	1994	Loading... Go
3	Havanas in Camelot	2008	Loading... Go
4	Letters to My Father	2009	Loading... Go
5	Selected Letters of William Styron	2012	Loading... Go
6	My Generation	2015	Loading... Go

List of Literary Conversations Books in Publication Order

Conversations with famous literary figures, providing insight into their lives and work.

	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges	1969	Loading... Go
2	Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz	1981	Loading... Go
3	Conversations with Graham Greene	1983	Loading... Go
4	Conversations with Eudora Welty	1985	Loading... Go
5	Conversations with Walker Percy	1985	Loading... Go
6	Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer	1985	Loading... Go
7	Conversations with William Styron	1985	Loading... Go
8	Conversations with Malcolm Cowley	1986	Loading... Go
9	Conversations with Lillian Hellman	1986	Loading... Go
10	Conversations with Tennessee Williams	1986	Loading... Go
11	Conversations with Ernest Hemingway	1986	Loading... Go
12	Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter	1987	Loading... Go
13	Truman Capote: Conversations	1987	Loading... Go
14	Conversations with Flannery O'Connor	1987	Loading... Go
15	Conversations with Peter Taylor	1987	Loading... Go
16	Conversations with Arthur Miller	1987	Loading... Go
17	Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut	1988	Loading... Go
18	Conversations with Edward Albee	1988	Loading... Go
19	Conversations with Erskine Caldwell	1988	Loading... Go
20	Conversations with Norman Mailer	1988	Loading... Go
21	Conversations with Robert Graves	1989	Loading... Go
22	Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates	1989	Loading... Go
23	Conversations with Shelby Foote	1989	Loading... Go
24	Conversations with Robertson Davies	1989	Loading... Go
25	Conversations with James Baldwin	1989	Loading... Go
26	Conversations with John Gardner	1990	Loading... Go
27	Conversations with Richard Wilbur	1990	Loading... Go
28	Conversations with Tom Wolfe	1990	Loading... Go
29	Conversations with Raymond Carver	1990	Loading... Go
30	Conversations with Eugene O'Neill	1990	Loading... Go
31	Conversations with Reynolds Price	1991	Loading... Go
32	Conversations with Bernard Malamud	1991	Loading... Go
33	Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer	1991	Loading... Go
34	Conversations with Nikki Giovanni	1992	Loading... Go
35	Conversations With Thornton Wilder	1992	Loading... Go
36	Conversations with Robert Coles	1992	Loading... Go
37	Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher	1992	Loading... Go
38	More Conversations with Walker Percy	1993	Loading... Go
39	Conversations with Richard Wright	1993	Loading... Go
40	Conversations with Paul Bowles	1993	Loading... Go
41	Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris	1994	Loading... Go
42	Conversations with Amiri Baraka	1994	Loading... Go
43	10 Conversations with Toni Morrison	1994	Loading... Go
44	Conversations with Saul Bellow	1994	Loading... Go
45	Conversations with Henry Miller	1994	Loading... Go
46	Conversations With S.J. Perelman	1995	Loading... Go
47	Conversations with Ernest Gaines	1995	Loading... Go
48	Conversations with Ralph Ellison	1995	Loading... Go
49	Conversations with Chester Himes	1995	Loading... Go
50	Conversations with Susan Sontag	1995	Loading... Go
51	Conversations with Ishmael Reed	1995	Loading... Go
52	Conversations with Derek Walcott	1996	Loading... Go
53	More Conversations with Eudora Welty	1996	Loading... Go
54	Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop	1996	Loading... Go
55	Conversations with Pauline Kael	1996	Loading... Go
56	Conversations with V. S. Naipaul	1997	Loading... Go
57	Conversations with N. Scott Momaday	1997	Loading... Go
58	Conversations with Chinua Achebe	1997	Loading... Go
59	Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston	1998	Loading... Go
60	Conversations with Denise Levertov	1998	Loading... Go
61	Conversations With William Faulkner	1999	Loading... Go
62	Conversations with E. L. Doctorow	1999	Loading... Go
63	Conversations With John Fowles	1999	Loading... Go
64	Conversations with Salman Rushdie	2000	Loading... Go
65	Conversations with William S. Burroughs	2000	Loading... Go
66	Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko	2000	Loading... Go
67	Conversations with Chaim Potok	2001	Loading... Go
68	Conversations with Richard Ford	2001	Loading... Go
69	Conversations with Christopher Isherwood	2001	Loading... Go
70	Conversations with Mary Gordon	2002	Loading... Go
71	Conversations with Jim Harrison	2002	Loading... Go
72	Conversations with Clarence Major	2002	Loading... Go
73	Conversations with Margaret Walker	2002	Loading... Go
74	Conversations with Erica Jong	2002	Loading... Go
75	Elie Wiesel: Conversations	2002	Loading... Go
76	Joseph Brodsky: Conversations	2003	Loading... Go
77	Conversations with Rita Dove	2003	Loading... Go
78	7.3 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald	2003	Loading... Go
79	Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks	2003	Loading... Go
80	Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann	2003	Loading... Go
81	Conversations with Gloria Naylor	2004	Loading... Go
82	Conversations with Audre Lorde	2004	Loading... Go
83	Conversations with Ray Bradbury	2004	Loading... Go
84	Conversations With John le Carré	2004	Loading... Go
85	Conversations with Isaac Asimov	2005	Loading... Go
86	Conversations with Don DeLillo	2005	Loading... Go
87	Conversations with Gore Vidal	2005	Loading... Go
88	Conversations with Robert Penn Warren	2005	Loading... Go
89	Conversations with Jack Kerouac	2005	Loading... Go
90	Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez	2005	Loading... Go
91	Conversations with Thomas McGuane	2006	Loading... Go
92	Conversations with Larry Brown	2007	Loading... Go
93	Conversations with Sonia Sanchez	2007	Loading... Go
94	Conversations with Wendell Berry	2007	Loading... Go
95	Conversations with Leon Forrest	2007	Loading... Go
96	Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro	2008	Loading... Go
97	Conversations with Jimmy Carter	2023	Loading... Go
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List of William Styron Anthologies in Publication Order

#	Title Avg.	Year	Book Link
1	On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question	1992	Loading... Go
2	Sacred Sorrows: Embracing and Transforming Depression	1996	Loading... Go
3	The Good Parts	2000	Loading... Go
4	2 Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression	2001	Loading... Go
5	First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors	2009	Loading... Go
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William Styron

William Styron (William Clark Styron Jr.) was born on June 11th, 1925. William passed away November 1st, 2006 at 81 years old. William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, USA. Styron attended Davidson College where he received a B.A. in English and.

William Styron had written 8 standalone novels, starting with The Confessions of Nat Turner in 1951. The most recently released novel was Mr Jefferson and our times, which was released in 1984.

William Styron also wrote 6 Non-Fiction Books, including Darkness Visible and Fathers and Daughters.

William Styron: Awards & Accolades

William Styron has won multiple awards including: The St. Louis Literary Award, Distinguished Figure in Literature, in 1982, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Promotion of Modern Humanism, in 1985, Edward MacDowell Medal, Outstanding Contribution to American Culture and the Arts, in 1988, National Medal of Arts, Outstanding Contributions to the Arts in the United States, in 1993, F. Scott Fitzgerald Award, Honoree, in 1996 and the Library of Virginia, Lifetime Achievement Award, in 2006.

Styron's books have also won multiple awards, Lie Down in Darkness won the Rome Prize, Literature, in 1953. The Confessions of Nat Turner won the Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, in 1968 as well as the William Dean Howells Medal - Most Distinguished American Novel or Novelist in 1970. Sophie's Choice won the National Book Awards, Best Fiction - Hardcover, in 1980.

Styron's book, The Confessions of Nat Turner was nominated for the National Book Awards, Best Fiction, in 1968.

William Styron: Lists & Other Mentions

The Confessions of Nat Turner has made several lists including:
1. New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1967 and 1968.
2. Time Magazine: All-Time 100 Novels Selection in 2005.
3. Publishers Weekly: Bestselling Novel in the United States in 1967.
4. Oxford American: The Best Southern Novels of All Time Selection in 2009.
Sophie's Choice has made several lists including:
1. New York Times: #1 Fiction Best Seller in 1979.
2. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Board's List Selection in 1998.
3. Modern Library: 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century: Radcliffe's List Selection in 1998.
4. Jezebel: 75 Books Every Woman Should Read Selection in 2008.
5. Publishers Weekly: Bestselling Novel in the United States in 1979.
6. Esquire: The 80 Books Every Man Should Read Selection in 2015.
7. Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 Selection in 1984.
8. Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Selection in 2007.
9. Entertainment Weekly: Top 100 Novels Selection in 2013.
Darkness Visible was a New York Times: #1 Nonfiction Best Seller in 1990.

William Styron: TV/Movies Based on Books

Styron's short story Shadrach was adapted to film in 1998, directed by his daughter Susanna Styron. It starred Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell.

Related Authors

Fans of William Styron also enjoy these authors:

Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale Series.
Dan Brown, author of the Robert Langdon Series.
Ken Follett, author of the Kingsbridge Series.
Paula Hawkins, author of: The Girl on the Train.

William Styron: F.A.Q

When was William Styron Born?

William Styron was born on June 11th, 1925.

When did William Styron die?

William Styron died on November 1st, 2006 at 81 years old.

Where was William Styron Born?

William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, USA.

What awards has William Styron won?

William Styron has won the following awards: Distinguished Figure in Literature at the St. Louis Literary Award (1982), Promotion of Modern Humanism at the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1985), Outstanding Contribution to American Culture and the Arts at the Edward MacDowell Medal (1988), Outstanding Contributions to the Arts in the United States at the National Medal of Arts (1993), Honoree at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award (1996) and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Library of Virginia (2006).

What book awards has William Styron won?

Lie Down in Darkness: Rome Prize Literature (1953).
The Confessions of Nat Turner: Pulitzer Prize Fiction (1968), William Dean Howells Medal Most Distinguished American Novel or Novelist (1970).
Sophie's Choice: National Book Awards Best Fiction - Hardcover (1980).

What was the first book William Styron wrote?

The first book written by William Styron was The Confessions of Nat Turner, published in 1951.

What was the most recent book William Styron wrote?

His most recently released work was My Generation on May 26th, 2015.

What is the most popular book by William Styron?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular William Styron book is Sophie's Choice. Here are his most popular books:

Sophie's Choice (7.27)
Darkness Visible (8)
Lie Down in Darkness (7)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (8)

How many books has William Styron written?

William Styron has written 20 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 8 Standalone Novels, 1 book in the Play, 4 Collections, 6 Non-Fiction Books, 1 book in the Literary Conversations Series.

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