#84
Title: William Styron
Author: Judith Ruderman
Genre: Biography
Category: Non-Fiction
Rating: B
Published:
1987
Dates: 12/1/15 – 12/21/15
Pages: 160
From
the Literature and Life: American Writers series, Ruderman introduces us to
Styron’s body of work. Among his novels
that I’ve read are The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice, the
former of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Detail is the word that describes the depth
Judith Ruderman goes into about his other books, short stories, sketches and
reviews, a play and a screen play. Some
of Styron’s work is morbid such as his novel, The Long March and his play, The
Clap Shack. Ruderman say that a book he was
working on, The Way of the Warrior, would inform it as well. Interestingly enough it was not
published. Instead, however, a short
auto-biography came out in 1990 entitled Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.
Perhaps he overdid his commentary on war
as a theme in his books.
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