After a brief stint as an actress, Styron turned to writing and is the author of several books. Her most-noted work, 2011 memoir Reading My Father, detailed her life growing up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and explored his decades-long struggle with major clinical depression. The book was published by Scribner to strong reviews.[6] In The New York Times Book Review, James Campbell described the book as “brilliant and shocking.”[7]Reading My Father was nominated for the L.A. Times book award and long-listed for The New York Times bestseller list.[8]
Styron is a professor in the MFA Creative Writing program at
Hunter College in New York City.[9]
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