This from bloombergnews.com

William Styron, whose novel “The
Confessions of Nat Turner” won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction, died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, aged 81.         

Styron died yesterday of pneumonia following years of
illness, the New York Times said, citing his youngest daughter,
Alexandra, 40.         

Author Kurt Vonnegut, a longtime friend of Styron’s, told
the Associated Press, “He was dramatic, he was fun. He was
strong and proud and he was awfully good with the language. I
hated to see him end this way.”         

Styron’s last novel, “Sophie’s Choice,” was published in
1979. The story of a Holocaust survivor’s mental struggles was a
best-seller and became a movie for which lead actress Meryl
Streep won an Academy Award.         

Since then, Styron became known for his 1990 memoir of
depression, “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.” A review
in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggested making the book
required reading for new psychiatrists.