“As soon as I got back here [to Roxbury, Conn.] from Paris I had to go down south for that wretched lecture tour in Va. and N.C. The U of Va was a drag — I felt like a pariah in that smug place, almost no one showed up for my talk! — but this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘william styron’
‘[Most] kids in Chapel Hill are amazingly on the ball’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged confessions of nat turner, susanna styron, unc chapel hill, university of virginia, william styron on May 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Why William Styron had to write ‘Nat Turner’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged ambrose burnside, american heritage, eastern nc, the confessions of nat turner, william styron on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Born in 1850 on an eastern North Carolina plantation, my father’s mother was the proprietress of two slave girls who were her age, 12 or thereabouts, at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation. Many years later, when she was an old lady in her 80s and I was 11 or 12, she told me at [...]
Death noted: William Styron’s roommate
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Literature, tagged duke university, gov claude kirk, william styron on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Am now rooming [at Duke] with Art Katz of Memphis and Claude Kirk of Montgomery, Ala. Both are transfers from Emory, and they’re good guys.” – Letter from William Styron to his father, March 12, 1944 “[Florida Gov. Claude Kirk] rises to the challenge, occasionally with a fine and almost classic use of the language… [...]
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