William Styron

Barnaby Conrad Jr. dies at 90; bullfighter, artist, saloonkeeper founded Santa Barbara Writers Conference

2013-02-16 19:37:00

When Barnaby Conrad was nearly killed in a 1958 bullfight, his celebrity pals were buzzing about it at Sardi's in New York. "Did you hear about poor Barnaby?" Eva Gabor asked Noel Coward in her thick Hungarian accent. "He was terribly gored in Spain."...

Meet Percival Everett and 'Percival Everett'

2013-02-08 09:00:00

-------------------- Percival Everett by Virgil Russell A Novel By Percival Everett Graywolf Press, 227 pp., $15 paper -------------------- When I read Percival Everett's new book, "Percival Everett by Virgil Russell" — or Percival Everett...

Book review: 'Loose Diamonds … and Other Things I've Lost (and Found) Along the Way' by Amy Ephron

2011-12-27 00:00:00

Shelve this one under a category that should be named ''bouquet memoirs.'' Books like Amy Ephron's "Loose Diamonds … and Other Things I've Lost (and Found) Along the Way" are a nosegay of life essays whose pronouns are mostly "I" and "we," but are...

Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist

2011-12-20 16:34:51

Wylie-Amazon e-books partnership gives in to Random House

2010-08-25 16:34:31

Book Review: 'Reading My Father: A Memoir' by Alexandra Styron

2011-05-01 00:00:00

Reading My Father: A Memoir Alexandra Styron Scribner: 304 pp., $25 A Virginia boy who loved Proust and Dickinson, William Styron gave such heft and meaning to mid-20th century American fiction that, with a few other white male writers, he all but...

Vance Bourjaily dies at 87; novelist, professor whose WWII experiences influenced early work

2010-09-12 00:00:00

Vance Bourjaily, a novelist and professor of writing who was part of the post- World War II generation of writers whose wartime experiences influenced their early work, has died. He was 87. Bourjaily, who was discovered by legendary editor Max Perkins,...

Fall preview: Publishing

2010-09-12 00:00:00

Not that long ago, e-books were an oddity: Devices were expensive, and those who invested in them struggled to find something good to read. But the age of preferring paperbacks is starting to look like the late era of CDs — e-books are ascendant....

Erich Segal dies at 72; author of 'Love Story'

2010-01-20 00:00:00

Erich Segal, a Yale University classics professor whose first novel, the weepy "Love Story," became a pop-culture phenomenon, selling more than 20 million copies in three dozen languages and spawning an iconic catchphrase of the 1970s, died Sunday in...

'The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps' by William Styron

2009-11-01 00:00:00

The Suicide Run Five Tales of the Marine Corps William Styron Random House: 198 pp., $24 The business -- and I use the word advisedly -- of posthumous publication is a troubling one. We honor our dear dead. Yet there are certain kinds of attention...

Amazon lures authors with 70% royalty deal, and HTML5

2010-06-30 16:36:09

In 'Lark and Termite,' Jayne Anne Phillips continues to explore human vulnerabilities and the lasting effects of war on memory

2009-01-11 00:00:00

Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst,...

Mike Wallace with his wife Mary and stepson Eames Yates at The Paris Review Foundation Presents Fall Revel Honoring William Styron in 2004.

2012-04-08 09:19:00

Author William Styron on Nov. 16, 1994.

2011-05-01 00:00:00

William Styron , a famous novelist, was born in Newport News .

2009-10-22 13:14:57