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4 unusual facts about William Styron


Elobey, Annobón and Corisco

The American author William Styron wrote a short vignette entitled Elobey, Annobón, and Corisco, about his time as a young Marine officer during World War II.

Goodbye Uncle Tom

The film ends with an unidentified man's fantasy re-enactment of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Petr Lébl

He met the US ambassador Luers and attended parties organized by the US embassy, where he met John Updike, Edward Albee and William Styron.

Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice (novel), a 1979 novel written by William Styron which depicts a mother at wits' end, faced with a forced decision in which all options have equally negative outcomes.


John Stewart Wynne aka John Wynne

Wynne has also produced and directed over one hundred audio books, including The Phantom of the Opera performed by F. Murray Abraham, William Styron reading his Darkness Visible (memoir), Christopher Reeve performing F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and John F. Kennedy, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage.


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Adele Morales

In the fall of 1956 they moved to a rented "sprawling white saltbox farmhouse" in Bridgewater, Connecticut, near a literary and artistic community that included Arthur Miller and William Styron in nearby Roxbury.