Colin McEnroe Show: Alexandra Styron On 'Reading My Father'

Few novelists of the past 50 years have enjoyed the huge success and lengthy renown of William Styron. With Sophie’s Choice, Lie Down in Darkness, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron established himself as a masterful chronicler of the American experience. But his gift for fiction came at a heavy price. The last twenty-five years of Styron’s life were marked by episodes of devastating depression, the first of which he documented with stunning candor in Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.

Reading My Father is a portrait of this towering, mesmerizing, occasionally crippled man by his youngest daughter, Alexandra Styron. We talk with her about the book today.

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