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Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He died in 2006.A masterpiece, [which leaves] more conventional treatments of the Holocaust, such as <i>Schindler's List</i>, looking obtuse and sentimental
The Times
William Styron's <i>Sophie's Choice</i> is a landmark of mid-20th-century American fiction - an impressively fat novel that most literate Americans claim to have read even if they haven't
Sunday Telegraph
A compassionate, brilliantly written novel
The Times
A weighty, passionate novel . . . courageous [and] masterly
NY Times
Styron is a writer's writer, capable of setting a pastoral idyll in Brooklyn, and the traumas narrated occur alongside a classic American coming-of-age story
- Xan Brooks, Guardian, 1000 novels everyone must read
Read it if you can bear.
- Katy Guest, The Independent
If you’re not sobbing at the end of this tale of tortured souls, consult a doctor immediately because you might be dead
- David Baldacci, Mail on Sunday