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Tired of new writers? Hungering for more from some of the established greats? Then I’ve got good news for you: William Styron’s got a posthumous collection of fiction coming out, which will include a chapter from an unfinished novel. Styron, who died in 2006, is best-known, of course, for Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner (both controversial when they were published), as well as Darkness Visible, his well-known memoir about his first struggle with major depression.
If you’re a fan, or interested in learning more, check out his daughter’s memoir from the December 10, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, Styron’s own New Yorker essay about being misdiagnosed with syphillis when he was 19, audio interviews with the author from 1981 and 1982, or this hour-long video appreciation of the author and his work that appeared on Charlie Rose.