It happened This Week: Nov. 4-11 Nov 7, 2009
"Royalty at the Richardson School Carnival included Brenda Niggemeyer, Idol Mitchell, Kim Tutle, Chuy Garcia and Denise Freel."Midnight Cowboy," starring Dustin Hoffman and John Voight, opened at the State Theater.Chester S. Gross received a 50-year pin from the Stella Lodge No. 449 AF and AM.Mark E. Scott, 49, former Lee County Auditor, died.Larry Linnenbrink of West Point and Carol Jury of Farmington, both 8-year members of Lee County 4-H clubs, were named Lee County 4-H Outstanding Boy and... (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
by William Styron (Random House). Stories (one never before published) that are based on the late writer's time as a Marine. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Excitement and sorrow Aug 27, 2009
Brustein, who lives in West Tisbury, became friendly with Kennedy in the early 1970s when the senator, and several members of his family, would sail to Martha s Vineyard and camp out in the yard of writer William Styron. A few years later, Brustein asked Kennedy if he would write a letter to then-Harvard president Derek Bok endorsing the creation of the ART, and he obliged. (Boston Globe)
Edelstein on the Bedazzling Meryl Streep Aug 10, 2009
I cannot let David Edelstein"s review of "Julie & Julia" stand without informing Mr. Edelstein that "Sophie's Choice" was not a story about a Polish Jew; it was a story about a Polish Catholic. Mr. Edelstein's comment negates my mother, Rozalia Wanda Stencel's, nightmare experience; a Polish Catholic, survivor of three and one-half years in three concentration camps, including Auschwitz (from which she was liberated by Americans), but lost her two children, husband, and entire family - My mother... (CBS News)
Roxbury a Cultural Hotbed Jul 24, 2009
"Sophie's Choice" novelist William Styron, who died in 2006, had a home in town. And famous American sculptor and inventor of the mobile, Alexander Calder, also had a home here before his 1976 death. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Sad Sale For Widow Of Author Jul 15, 2009
retreat of the late William Styron has been put on the market by his widow, Rose Styron. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and "Sophie's Choice" died in 2006. (New York Post -- Gossip)
The wrestler Mar 8, 2009
When John Cheever, mortally ill, received the National Medal for Literature in 1982, William Styron called his position in literary history "immovably fixed as one of those huge granite outcroppings which loom over the green lawns and sunlit terraces in the land of his own magic devising." Literary history would have a different story to tell, as Blake Bailey points out in this surely definitive biography of the writer, "Cheever: A Life.". In 1979, when Cheever's collected stories won the... (Boston Globe)
