• Source: William Styron

William Styron adalah Novelis dari Amerika Serikat, lahir di Virginia pada tahun 1925. Ia belajar dalam bidang penulisan di Duke University dan kemudian pindah ke New York untuk memulai karier sebagai penulis.
Pada tahun 1951, William Styron menerbitkan novel pertamanya yang berjudul Lie Down in Darkness. Ia kemudian ikut wajib miiter dalam Perang Korea.
Pengalaman Styron dalam marinir AS dituangkannya dalam novel selanjutnya, The Long March. Novel tersebut menceritakan perlakuan brutal terhadap anggota marinir dalam latihan mereka. Novel ini meraih kesuksesan besar sehingga sejak itu Styron menjadi terkenal dan semakin produktif melahirkan karya-karya berikutnya.
Karya Styron yang terkenal dan paling laku adalah Sophie's Choice.




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Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton (Spring 1954). "William Styron, The Art of Fiction No. 5". The Paris Review. Spring 1954 (5).
George Plimpton (Spring 1999). "William Styron, The Art of Fiction No. 156". The Paris Review. Spring 1999 (150).
James Campbell, "Tidewater traumas", The Guardian Unlimited website
William Styron di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
Kenneth S. Greenberg, ed. Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xix + 289 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-513404-9 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-19-517756-5 (paper).
James L. W. West III [editor], Conversations with William Styron, Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1985. ISBN 0-87805-260-7.
James L. W. West III, William Styron: A Life, New York: Random House, 1998. ISBN 0-679-41054-6
Charlie Rose with William Styron, A discussion about mental illness, 50-minute interview
William Styron interview with William Waterway Marks on "The Vineyard Voice"/1989/covers a range of topics.
"An Appreciation of William Styron", Charlie Rose, – 55-minute-long video
A Conversation with William Styron Diarsipkan 2015-09-07 di Wayback Machine. on-line reprint of interview published in Humanities, 18,3 (1997),
William Styron interview on Martha's Vineyard, William Styron interview by author and TV host William Waterway Marks with rare photo of Styron sitting at desk in his island writing studio.
Michael Lackey, "The Theology of Nazi Anti-Semitism in William Styron's Sophie's Choice," Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 22,4 (2011), 277–300.
KCRW Bookworm Interview Diarsipkan 2012-11-14 di Wayback Machine.
A memoir of life with Styron by his writer daughter, Alexandra Styron.
Stuart Wright Collection: William Styron Papers (#1169-011), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University
William Styron: An Author's Life and Career, a comprehensive website maintained by James L. W. West III, Styron’s biographer.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• William Styron
• Robert Loomis
• Penghargaan Pulitzer 1968
• 1925
• Vintage Books
• Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
• Dilema etika
• Alan J. Pakula
• Nanni Moretti
• Ettore Scola
• William Styron
• Sophie's Choice (novel)
• Rose Styron
• Darkness Visible (memoir)
• Nat Turner
• Shadrach (film)
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Sophie's Choice (film)
• The Long March (novel)
• Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award