Reading My Father

The story of a daughter coming to know her father at last—a deeply personal literary memoir about William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and Darkness Visible—“ardent, sophisticated, and entirely winning…this is a grown-up memoir…taut and true” (The New York Times).

Part memoir and part elegy, Reading My Father is Alexandra Styron’s intimate portrait of her father, William Styron, one of the defining American novelists of the 20th century. “A natural writer, flui...