William Styron

One hopes that with the increased visibility of public figures who have discussed their own brave battles with mental illness-prominent Americans such as William Styron, Mike Wallace, Dick Cavett and Jane Pauley-the stigma will continue to lessen, and more people will seek help.

New Mets Stadium: A Home Run 2005

One hopes that with the increased visibility of public figures who have discussed their own brave battles with mental illness-prominent Americans such as William Styron, Mike Wallace, Dick Cavett and Jane Pauley-the stigma will continue to lessen, and more people will seek help.

New Mets Stadium: A Home Run 2005

Although researching depression drugs and reading books such as William Styron's Darkness Visible: A Memoir of

SFGate: Top News Stories Steven Winn 2011

Other writers, such as William Styron in Sophie’s Choice, present the female victim as inherently eroticized, rendered desirable by her victimization.

Holocaust Literature. 2009

In a memoir of life with William Styron, one of his daughters reports on her terrified youth and his sad old age.

A Roaring Literary Lion Winston Groom 2011

In his best-selling classic about his battle with depression, Darkness Visible, William Styron describes the “downward spiral of depression” that overcame him as he approached sixty and how suicide became in his mind the only way to escape his anguish.

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

William Styron, who told the story in his novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner," called this "the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery."

A Free Mind, An Unfree Man Charles S. Dameron 2011

William Styron writes, “It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”

History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011

In the summer of 1985 a horrible and inexplicable melancholy descended upon William Styron.

A Roaring Literary Lion Winston Groom 2011

William Styron, who died in 2006, was a towering figure among the American novelists of the last half of the 20th century, one whose books enjoyed a rare combination of both critical and commercial success.

A Roaring Literary Lion Winston Groom 2011