William Styron, Novelist, Dies at 81 Mr. Styron's early work, including "Lie Down in Darkness," won him wide recognition as a distinctive voice of the South, and an heir to William Faulkner. In ...

In 1939, when Billy Styron was 14 years old, his mother died after a long and painful illness. Coming as it did when he was at an especially vulnerable age, her death must have had deep and lasting ...

When the theater and film director James Lapine first met Rose Styron, he knew her as William Styron’s widow. He learned there was a lot more to her. By Glenn Kenny The poet and activist Rose Styron, ...