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• The Stranger (1942), Albert Camus’ classic existentialist novel, illustrates the terrors of human decision-making in a godless world. Styron names this book as a major influence on his own writing.
• Marty Jezer’s 1992 biography of 1960s’ rebel and Styron’s friend Abbie Hoffman, Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel, attempts to reconcile Hoffman’s public persona with his personal life. Styron speculates that Hoffman’s death was a suicide linked to mental illness.
• Howard Kushner’s 1991 study, American Suicide: A Psychocultural...
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