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Also by William Styron:

Selected Letters Of William Styron, December 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Havanas in Camelot, April 2008
Hardcover
Set This House on Fire, April 2001
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
A Tidewater Morning, September 1994
Paperback (reprint)
This Quiet Dust, January 1993
Paperback (reprint)
The Confessions of Nat Turner, November 1992
Paperback (reprint)
Sophie's Choice, March 1992
Paperback (reprint)
Lie Down In Darkness, March 1992
Paperback (reprint)
Darkness Visible, January 1992
Trade Size (reprint)

HAVANAS IN CAMELOT
By: William Styron

Personal Essays

Random House
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
176 pages
ISBN: 1400067197
EAN: 9781400067190
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron’s daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard.

Styron’s essays touch on the great themes of his fiction– racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust–but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects.

These essays, which reveal a reflective and humorous side of Styron’s nature, make possible a fuller assessment of this enigmatic man of American letters.

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Studio 360 - May 22, 2011
All Things Considered - June 3, 2008