Fellowship of Southern Writers

WILLIAM STYRON

Styron was awarded the American Academy’s Prix de Rome for his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness. Other works include The Long March and Set This House on Fire. He received the 1968 Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for The Confessions of Nat Turner. His novel, Sophie’s Choice, winner of the American Book Award, was adapted to the screen in an Academy Award-winning motion picture.

Fellowship of Southern Writers A. R. Ammons James Applewhite Richard Bausch Madison Smartt Bell Wendell Berry Doris Betts Joseph Blotner Cleanth Brooks Fred Chappell George Core James Dickey Ellen Douglas Clyde Edgerton Ralph Ellison Horton Foote Shelby Foote John Hope Franklin Ernest J. Gaines George Garrett Kaye Gibbons Gail Godwin Allan Gurganus Barry Hannah Beth Henley William Hoffman Josephine Humphreys Blyden Jackson Madison Jones Donald Justice Yusef Komunyakaa C. Eric Lincoln Romulus Linney Andrew Lytle Bobbie Ann Mason Jill McCorkle Marsha Norman Walker Percy Reynolds Price John Shelton Reed Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Mary Lee Settle Lewis P. Simpson Dave Smith Lee Smith Monroe K. Spears Elizabeth Spencer William Styron Walter Sullivan Henry Taylor Peter Taylor Ellen Bryant Voigt Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty Allen Wier C. Vann Woodward Charles Wright

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