William Styron, Author . Random $23 (162p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6719-0
“I was aware that this was a contraband item under the embargo against Cuban goods and that the embargo had been promulgated by the very man who had just pressed the cigar into my hand,” writes Styron about John F. Kennedy in the title...
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William Styron, Author . Random $24 (194p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6822-7
This posthumous collection from Pulitzer and National Book Award–winner Styron (Sophie's Choice
) is a mishmash of early stories and unfinished novel excerpts that, while interesting as an artifact, adds little to his esteemed oeuvre. A...
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William Styron, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-75449-7
These three interconnected stories are the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first fiction in more than a decade. (Sept.)
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William Styron, Author Random House (NY) $15.95 (84p) ISBN 978-0-394-58888-9
A meditation on Styron's ( Sophie's Choice ) serious depression at the age of 60, this essay evokes with detachment and dignity the months-long turmoil whose symptoms included the novelist's ``dank joylessness,'' insomnia, physical aversion to...
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William Styron, Author Random House (NY) $17 (142p) ISBN 978-0-679-42742-1
The publisher bills this as Styron's first book of fiction in more than a decade. Sophie's Choice was published in 1979--but that is misleading: the most recent of these three Esquire stories collected here was published in 1987, and the other two...
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Edited by Rose Styron, with R. Blakeslee Gilpin. Random, $40 (704p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6806-7
In an extraordinary editorial feat, Styron’s widow, Rose (From Summer to Summer), a poet, translator, and activist, and University of South Carolina historian Gilpin (John Brown Still Lives!) have collected, transcribed, and annotated this...
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William Styron, edited by James L.W. West III. Random, $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-812997-05-7
While West may very well have chosen only to include Styron’s “most important essays, reviews, and memoirs,” as he asserts in his editor’s note, casual admirers of the author may be overwhelmed. Some will undoubtedly feel that less would have been...
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James L. West, Editor, William Styron, Author University Press of Mississippi $46 (280p) ISBN 978-0-87805-260-8
Only between the discussions of Lie Down in Darkness (1951) and The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), does a definite William Styron begin to emerge from this collection of 25 interviews, originally published in the New York Times, Paris Review, etc.
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