William Styron

Depression

  • Depression

  • How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to give us this gripping description of his descent into mental anguish, and his eventual success in overcoming a little-understood yet very common condition.

    The unabridged text of Darkness Visible by William Styron

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This Quiet Dust
This Quiet Dust
William Styron
The Long March
The Long March
William Styron
The Suicide Run
The Suicide Run
William Styron
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
A Tidewater Morning
A Tidewater Morning
William Styron
Darkness Visible
Darkness Visible
William Styron
Set This House On Fire
Set This House On Fire
William Styron
Lie Down In Darkness
Lie Down In Darkness
William Styron
Vintage Minis

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43 Books

Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He is the author of The Long March, Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire and Sophie's Choice. He has also published Darkness Visible, the remarkable story of his descent into depression, the collection This Quiet Dust and Other Writings, and A Tidewater Morning. William Styron died in 2006.

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