William Styron

Styron, William (1925– ), U.S. novelist and winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), a first-person novelization of an 1831 slave rebellion. Other novels include Lie Down in Darkness (1951), Sophie's Choice (1979), Darkness Visible: a Memoir of Madness (1990), and A Tidewater Morning (1993).