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William Styron

May 2021

  • Logan Thomas’s 2011 film of The Yellow Wallpaper.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about depression

    From Robert Burton’s 17th-century Anatomy of Melancholy to new insights from Ed Bullmore, these are welcome guides to one of the loneliest experiences

October 2018

  • Kerry Fox as Janet Frame in the film version of An Angel at My Table.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about psychiatry

    Spanning unusual cruelty and extraordinary kindness, authors from Pat Barker to Janet Frame explore an unsettling branch of medicine

December 2013

  • William Styron and Toni Morrison

    The great American novelist tournament
    Who is the greatest American novelist? 4: Toni Morrison v William Styron

    You nominated the contenders – now reader Matthew Spencer pits Morrison's The Bluest Eye against Styron's Set This House on Fire

April 2013

  • Angela Carter

    World Book Night: Ten writers' reasons for reading

    On the day of the grand annual giveaway to promote reading, here is a selection of grand names making the case for page-turning

March 2011

  • William Styron

    Books blog
    Illuminating depression

    Chris Cox: William Styron's Darkness Visible remains, two decades on, a beacon of hope in this benighted realm of experience

January 2010

  • The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps by William Styron

    Edmund Gordon is unimpressed by William Styron's cumbersome tales of life in the Marines

November 2009

  • The Paris Review Interviews Vol 4 edited by Philip Gourevitch

    Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland

November 2006

  • William Styron, civil warrior (1925-2006)

    The recent death of William Styron markes a significant moment in American literature, says Robert McCrum.

  • William Styron

    Obituary: US novelist famed for The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice.

    • Books blog
      Remembering William Styron: 1925-2006

    • William Styron

    • William Styron dies

March 2003

  • Tidewater traumas

    The descendant of slaveowners, William Styron's 50-year writing career has been dogged by depression - chronicled in an acclaimed memoir. Described by some as a successor to Faulkner, he has also attracted controversy, notably for his novel on slavery.

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