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A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, co-founder of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor,  friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary, discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroadAn intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summ...

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In 1950, at the age of twenty-four, William Clark Styron, Jr., wrote to his mentor, Professor William Blackburn of Duke University. The young writer was struggling with his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, and he was nervous about whether his "strain and toil" would amount to anything. "When I mature and broaden, " Styron told Blackburn, "I expect to use the language on as exalted and elevated a level as I can sustain. I believe that a write...

In this remarkable new collection, her first in over a decade, Rose Styron confronts the death of her husband-step by step-in jewel-like poems. Seldom has a poet been so attuned to the ways in which, under the pressure of grief, time both opens and shuts-letting us into its minutes, shutting us out of its years. The instant, clock time, the half-hour, the day, the anniversary, sacred time, secular time, calendar time-all are opened up by love,...

In this remarkable new collection, her first in over a decade, Rose Styron confronts the death of her husband-step by step-in jewel-like poems. Seldom has a poet been so attuned to the ways in which, under the pressure of grief, time both opens and shuts-letting us into its minutes, shutting us out of its years. The instant, clock time, the half-hour, the day, the anniversary, sacred time, secular time, calendar time-all are opened up by love,...

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