Alexandra Styron Explained

Claire Alexandra Styron, known as Alexandra Styron,^[1] is an American author and professor.

Early life and education

Styron is the youngest child of author William Styron and poet and human rights activist Rose Burgunder.^[2] She grew up in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Martha's Vineyard.^{[3] [4]} Styron attended Barnard College, and later the MFA Creative Writing program at Columbia University.^[5]

Career

After a brief stint as an actress, Styron turned to writing and is the author of several books. Her most-noted work, the 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]

Selected works

• All The Finest Girls (2001),^[10] a novel;
• Reading My Father (2011),^[11] a memoir about her father, author William Styron;
• Steal This Country: A Handbook for Resistance, Persistence, and Fixing (Almost) Everything (2018),^[12] a young adult guide to activism.

Notes and References

1. News: WEDDINGS; Alexandra Styron, Edward Beason. 2018-09-20. en.
2. Reading My Father. The New Yorker. 2018-09-20. en-US.
3. Book: results, search. Reading My Father: A Memoir. 2012-03-06. Scribner. 9781416591818. Reprint. New York. English.
4. News: Alexandra Styron's Memoir, 'Reading My Father' - Review. Garner. Dwight. 2018-09-20. en.
5. News: WEDDINGS; Alexandra Styron, Edward Beason. 2018-09-20. en.
6. News: 'Reading My Father:' Growing Up With William Styron. NPR.org. 2018-11-06. en.
7. News: Book Review - Reading My Father - By Alexandra Styron. Campbell. James. 2018-11-06. en.
8. Web site: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. https://web.archive.org/web/20160116081020/http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/book-prizes-previous-winners/. dead. 2016-01-16. Festival of Books. en-US. 2018-11-06.
9. Web site: Creative Writing MFA Faculty. . www.hunter.cuny.edu . https://web.archive.org/web/20180928003332/http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting/memoir.shtml . September 28, 2018 . dead . 2024-07-20.
10. Book: results, search. All the Finest Girls: A Novel. 2002-06-04. Back Bay Books. 9780316120869. Boston. English. registration.
11. Book: results, search. Reading My Father: A Memoir. 2012-03-06. Scribner. 9781416591818. Reprint. New York. English.
12. Book: results, search. Steal This Country: A Handbook for Resistance, Persistence, and Fixing Almost Everything. 2018-09-04. Viking Books for Young Readers. 9780451479372. English.