Primary Works

Lie down in darkness, a novel. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill 1951. PS3569.T9 L5

The long march. NY: Random House 1956,1952. PS3569 .T9 L6

Set this house on fire. NY: Random House 1960. PS3569 T9.S4

The confessions of Nat Turner. NY: Random House 1967. PS3569 T9 C6

In the clap shack. NY: Random House 1973. PS3569 T9 I5

Sophie's choice. NY: Random House, 1979. PS3569.T9 S6

This quiet dust: and other writings William Styron. NY: Random House, 1982. PS3569 .T9 T5

Darkness visible: a memoir of madness. NY: Random House, 1990. RC 537 .S88

A Tidewater morning: three tales from youth. NY: Random House, 1993. PS3569 .T9 T55 

"More Confessions." Styron, William. In: Carnes, Mark C. ed. Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other). NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Campbell, James. Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark. Berkeley: U of California P, 2008.

Coale, Samuel. William Styron revisited. Boston: Twayne, 1991. PS3569 .T9 Z624

Cologne-Brookes, Gavin. The Novels of William Styron: From Harmony to History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1995.

Folks, Nancy S. ed. The World Is Our Culture: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000.

Mandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006.

Parini, Jay. ed. American Writers: Classics, Volume II. NY: Scribner's, 2004.

Ross, Daniel W. ed. The Critical Response to William Styron. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.

Ruderman, Judith. William Styron. NY: Ungar, 1987. PS3569 .T9 Z88

Sicher, Efraim. ed. Holocaust Novelists. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

Styron, Alexandra. Reading My Father: A Memoir. NY: Scribner, 2011.

West, James L. William Styron: a life. NY: Random House, 1998 PS3569 .T9 Z94

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