Remembering William Styron

I had chance to meet the author of "Sophie's Choice" at the 1997 Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville. His daughter was there to show a film she directed based on a Styron short story. I believe "Shadrac" was the title. I wrote a term about Styron's work when I was at Radford University circa 1994. I read the novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner," which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1967. Styron also wrote a breakthrough book about his struggle with depression called "Darkness Visible." He died at age 81 this week. "Sophie's Choice" was recently made into an unlikely opera, and it premiered in Washington DC. He will be missed.

 

Any errors in this blog are due to the fact that it was written in haste!