William Styron dies at age 81
American author William Styron, who endured a lifelong battle with depression, died yesterday at age 81. He was best known for writing Sophie’s Choice, the story of a Holocaust survivor, (which was later turned into a film with Meryl Streep and also became an opera) as well as the 1967 Pulitzer prize winner The Confessions of Nat Turner, which describes a black slave revolt published at the height of the civil rights movement.
