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William Styron
American novelist and essayist (1925–2006)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 June 1925
- Died
- 1 November 2006
- Place of birth
- Newport News
- Place of death
- Martha's Vineyard
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Styron
- Spouse
- Rose Styron
- Occupation
- writer, military personnel, novelist, journalist
- Position held
- President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Rome Prize, National Medal of Arts, National Book Award, Library of Congress Living Legend, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, St. Louis Literary Award, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Lucien Barrière Literary Award
- archives at
- Duke University
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- end of work period
- 2006
- influenced by
- Albert Camus, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, Mark Twain, Richard Yates, Romain Gary, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellowship of Southern Writers
- military branch
- United States Marine Corps
- military, police or special rank
- lieutenant
- name in native language
- William Styron
- notable work
- Sophie's Choice, Darkness Visible
- place of burial
- West Chop Cemetery
- residence
- Newport News, Virginia
- start of work period
- 1951
- writing language
- English
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