| William Styron  AKA William Clark Styron
Born: 11-Jun-1925
Birthplace: Newport News, VA
Died: 31-Oct-2006
Location of death: Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Remains: Buried, West Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Confessions of Nat Turner Military service: USMC (WWII) Wife: Rose Burgunder (m. 1953, three daughters, one son)
Daughter: Susanna Styron (journalist and professor, b. circa 1955)
Daughter: Alexandra Styron
Daughter: Paola Styron
Son: Thomas Styron
University: Davidson College (transferred)
University: Duke University (1947)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Friends of Hillary
Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee
International PEN
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Dean Howells Medal for The Confessions of Nat Turner
American Book Award 1980 for Sophie's Choice
National Book Award for Fiction 1980 for Sophie's Choice
National Medal of Arts 1993
Library of Congress Living Legend 2000
Shock Treatment
Risk Factors: Depression
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Naked in New York (1993) · Himself
Author of books:
Lie Down in Darkness (1951, novel)
The Long March (1953, novella)
Set This House on Fire (1960, novel)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967, novel)
Sophie's Choice (1979, novel)
This Quiet Dust (1982, essays)
Darkness Visible (1990, memoir)
A Tidewater Morning (1993, short stories)
Wrote plays:
In the Clap Shack (1972)
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