American · 1925–2006
William Styron won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 for "The Confessions of Nat Turner," a novel narrating the 1831 slave rebellion. "Sophie's Choice" (1979) won the National Book Award—a novel about a Holocaust survivor's impossible choice. Styron wrote about historical evil through individual consciousness. His memoir "Darkness Visible" (1990) described his depression.