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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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 Posted - 11/01/2006 : 22:35:58
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William Styron, author of Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Lie Down In Darkness, died Wednesday on Martha's Vineyard at age 81.
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"Sophie's Choice" author William Styron dies
POSTED: 11:49 p.m. EST, November 1, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) -- William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote "Sophie's Choice," died Wednesday in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
He was 81.
Styron's daughter, Alexandra, said the author died of pneumonia at Martha's Vineyard Hospital. Styron, who had homes in Martha's Vineyard and Connecticut, had been in failing health for a long time.
"This is terrible," said Kurt Vonnegut, a longtime friend. "He was dramatic, he was fun. He was strong and proud and he was awfully good with the language. I hated to see him end this way."
The Virginia native was a handsome, muscular man, with a strong chin and wavy dark hair that turned an elegant white. His obsessions with race and class informed such tormented narratives as "Lie Down In Darkness" and "The Confessions of Nat Turner."
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