Havanas in Camelot

“Styron exhales in these essays, displaying an ease that conveys even more intensely the fire within.”—Boston Globe“Each of Styron’s fourteen pieces is a gem.”—Newsweek“The graceful results of one man’s struggle to describe in the most perfect possible words the geography of the human heart.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer“A poignant reminder of the power and appeal of a voice now silent.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“The empathetic and keenly observed recollections of a grand old man of letters looking back with fondness on a life rich with incident … a gently rolling memory loop from a man who was generous in his praise and exacting in his art.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

William Styron (1925-2006)

A native of the Virginia Tidewater, William Styron was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible, and A Tidewater Morning. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Légion d’Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.

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