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Previous holders of the fellowship include former President Gerald Ford, former Secetary of State Dean Rusk, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and authors John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, John Updike '54, Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Penn Warren...
...working his way through East Texas State University by teaching high school drama in Galveston, he moved to New York City in 1955. He staged a revival of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and became a friend and protege of Williams', and later of Robert Penn Warren's and William Styron's. Much of his work has been literary adaptation. His stage version of Jack Henry Abbott's prison memoir In the Belly of the Beast was taken up last year by theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago...
...French President on the White House lawn. He was invited to address Congress, a conspicuous honor for a visiting head of state. At a sparkling state dinner, with Ronald Reagan as host, he was feted in the company of such luminaries as Actor James Stewart and Novelist William Styron. Throughout it all, the warm words flowed like champagne. Calling his country "a constant ally that can be counted on," Mitterrand described the U.S. and France as "brothers in arms, who from Yorktown all the way through the ages to Beirut have shed their blood together...
...prizes were determined by a jury headed by Novelist William Styron, who got the job in the course of the French government's conference on Creation and Development held last February in Paris. The award reflected a retreat to the ordinary concerns of cinema. Last year's Palme d'Or winners, Missing from the U.S. and Yol from Turkey, played like news bulletins from Third World battlegrounds. This year's winner, Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, is a harshly elemental lyric about Japanese mountain folk that could have been made any time...
With holocaust literature continually flooding the market and literally forming a genre of its own, great attention has been paid to the phenomenon of survivor's guilt. Elie Weisel gave the issue moving treatment in his widely acclaimed novel Night, and most recently, William Styron examined the trauma of a mother forced to determine the fate of her children in Sophie's Choice. It should come as no surprise therefore that as a Jewish initiate into the world of fiction, Sheila Levin attempts to join the ranks of the guilt-ridden with her first novel, Simple Truths...