William Styron - Novels, Memoirs & Letters (7 books)

WILLIAM STYRON (1925-2006) was a critically acclaimed American novelist and essayist. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Légion d’Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.

For much of his career, Styron was best known for his novels, including LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS (1951), his acclaimed first novel, published at age 26; THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt; and SOPHIE'S CHOICE (1979), a story told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but troubled Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn.

In 1985, he suffered his most serious bout with depression, out of which he was later able to write the memoir DARKNESS VISIBLE (1990), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.


With one exception noted below, all books are in EPUB format:

* THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER (Random House, 1967)

* DARKNESS VISIBLE: A Memoir of Madness (Random House, 1990)

* LETTERS TO MY FATHER [James L.W. West III, ed.] (Louisiana State University Press, 2009) -- PDF

* LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS (Random House, 1992)

* SOPHIE'S CHOICE (Random House, 1979)

* THE SUICIDE RUN: Five Tales of the Marine Corps (Random House, 2009)

* A TIDEWATER MORNING: Three Tales from Youth (Random House, 1993)