Search results
After a brief stint as an actress, Styron turned to writing and is the author of several books. Her most-noted work, 2011 memoir Reading My Father, detailed her life growing up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and explored his decades-long struggle with major clinical depression. The book was published by Scribner to strong reviews. [6]
OUT NOW! Inspired by Abbie Hoffman’s radical classic, Steal This Book, Alexandra Styron has created a valuable companion for a generation just now coming alive to the power of citizen activism. Both a practical manual and a stirring call-to-action, Steal This Country will speak to every young person with a passion for social justice and the ...
ALEXANDRA STYRON is the author of Reading My Father and a novel, All The Finest Girls. A graduate of Barnard College and the MFA program at Columbia University, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She currently teaches memoir writing in the MFA program at ...
Mar 16, 2011 · The marriage of Alexandra Styron’s literary-lion father and independently wealthy mother was full of drama. In an extract from her memoir, their daughter looks back at what happened when Bill ...
Apr 19, 2011 · Ms. Styron’s ardent, sophisticated and entirely winning memoir, “Reading My Father,” is a pointillistic accounting of the drama that brewed throughout her young life. That drama was dictated ...
Apr 22, 2011 · READING MY FATHER. A Memoir. By Alexandra Styron. 285 pp. Scribner. $25. James Campbell is an editor at The Times Literary Supplement. His books include a biography of James Baldwin, “Talking at ...
Apr 19, 2011 · In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half ...
Related searches
