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William Styron

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Scope:  William Styron attended school at Davidson College, Duke University and the New School for Social Research. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Marines during World War II. As a novelist he is best known for his works The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophies Choice, both of which deal with survivors of oppression. He was a civil rights advocate. In 1968 he received the Pulitzer Prize.

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Books of William Styrons works are listed in the Library's  on-line catalog under Styron, William. and under individual titles, i. e. The Confessions of Nat Turner.

Books written  by and about William Styron have the call number(s):
PS 3569
PS3537.T98

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PR 821.C7 1991 Vol. 7 Critical Survey of Long Fiction

REF PS 21.D5 Vol. 2 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 2 American Novelists Since World War II

REF PN 771.M3 1991 Vol. 4 Major 20th Century Writers

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

WEB SITES

Yahoo! Authors
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors

Jewish Writers and the Holocaust
http://www.english-literature.org/essays/jewish_writers.html

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Updated 02/08/2007