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Alexandra Styron - Wikipedia. Claire Alexandra Styron, known as Alexandra Styron, [1] is an American author and professor. Styron at a book reading in New Orleans, 2012. Early life and education. Styron is the youngest child of author William Styron and poet and human rights activist Rose Burgunder. [2] .
Alexandra Styron has written a stunning call to action for every young American to read – and to rally behind.” —Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling crime novelist and author of the Devlin Quick Mysteries for children.
ALEXANDRA STYRON is the author of Reading My Father and a novel, All The Finest Girls. A graduate of Barnard College and the MFA program at Columbia University, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
READING MY FATHER. Part memoir and part elegy, Reading My Father is the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. “A natural writer, fluid, and engaging” (The Boston Globe), Alexandra Styron grew up in Connecticut and on Martha’s Vineyard, where her family’s vibrant social life included writers, presidents, and entertainers.
19 de abr. de 2011 · Ms. Styron’s ardent, sophisticated and entirely winning memoir, “Reading My Father,” is a pointillistic accounting of the drama that brewed throughout her young life.
2 de dic. de 2007 · My father, William Styron, died just over a year ago. Famous by his mid-twenties, he helped create the cliché of the gifted, hard-drinking, bellicose writer which gave so much of twentieth ...
29 de jul. de 2015 · His daughter Alexandra Styron published her own memoir in 2011, titled Reading My Father. In it, she paints a picture of a quick-tempered and mercurial man (“a monumental asshole to the people closest to him”).
