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William Styron was an American novelist and essayist.
* He was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925.
* He attended Davidson College and the University of Virginia.
* His first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, was published in 1951.
* He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Confessions of Nat Turner in 1968.
* His other novels include Sophie's Choice and Darkness Visible.
* He died in 2006 at the age of 81.
* He is considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century.
* His work explored themes of race, violence, and mental illness.