![]() ![]() In it, she paints a picture of a quick-tempered and mercurial man (“a monumental asshole to the people closest to him”). ![]() His daughter Alexandra Styron published her own memoir in 2011, titled Reading My Father. Moreover, he helped break the silence and erase some of the stigma surrounding mental illness in America. But in Darkness Visible, a national bestseller, he found new praise for his honesty and courage as well as kinship with scores of fellow depression sufferers. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author was best known at the time for his novels The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. The short book-84 pages total-was an unflinching account of his clinical depression, hospitalization, and recovery in the mid-1980s. ![]() In 1990, William Styron published Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. ![]()
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