Jan 3, 2010

Darkness Visible | Media Adaptations

• Styron’s novel Sophie’s Choice was made into a motion picture in 1982, starring Meryl Streep as the survivor of Nazi concentration camps and Kevin Kline as an American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

• Styron has a bit part as an actor in the 1994 comedy Naked in New York.

• Styron’s daughter, Susanna Styron, directed the 1999 film Shadrach, adapted from one of her father’s short stories. The film stars Andie MacDowell and Harvey Keitel and was released by Columbia Pictures.

• Dick Cavett interviewed William Styron on PBS in...