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Alexandra Styron

Alexandra Styron
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Alexandra Styron

ALEXANDRA STYRON is the author of the novel All the Finest Girls and 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, Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and she has taught memoir writing in the MFA program at Hunter College. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, NY.

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Reading My Father will be released on March 06, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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Cleveland Live, May 4, 2012
...bedroom farce performed by dimestore marionettes." Still, Miller concluded. "New Venice is irresistible." Reading My Father Alexandra Styron (Scribner, 320 pp.) $15 Styron offers a memoir about her father, writer William Styron, best known for his novels...
NOLA Live, April 9, 2012
...spin from authors with New Orleans readings in April. Touring authors also include novelist Robert Olmstead and memoirist Alexandra Styron. The Garden District of New Orleans By Jim Fraiser and West Freeman University Press of Mississippi, $49.95 Packed...
Delmarva Public Radio, March 21, 2012
...look at WWI, former CIA operative Robert Baer tells the story of his marriage to another spy, and Alexandra Styron comes to terms with her famous novelist father, William Styron. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Billy Collins, Cara Hoffman, Adam...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 22, 2012
...X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable , by Robert K. Massie Reading my Father: A Memoir, by Alexandra Styron My Long Trip Home, by Mark Whitaker CURRENT INTEREST Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellow El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal...
Winnipeg Free Press, February 18, 2012
...as seen from both sides of the Atlantic. Lost literature Are all these volumes meant to celebrate what Alexandra Styron calls "the great and lost art of letter-writing"? If people -- especially our best-loved writers -- don't write letters to each other...
Creative Loafing, January 11, 2012
...the 1940's. White will speak Feb. 24, 6:30-8 p.m., at SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St. Alexandra Styron is the author of "Reading my Father" and "All the Finest Girls." The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times and The Wall...
Toledoblade.com, January 8, 2012
..."the rest of the vacation lying on the couch" in a house on Martha's Vineyard, rented from Alexandra Styron, daughter of novelist William Styron, and a writer as well. In the amusing chapter "Why I Quit Being Psychic," I was momentarily stopped short on...
Creative Loafing, March 9, 2012
...Cousin Dan plays 529, Trey Songz plays the Fox, and more by Wyatt Williams | 03.08.12 Alexandra Styron remembers her legendary 'hard drinking, bellicose writer' father at SCAD's Ivy Hall by Debbie Michaud | 03.07.12 Author Archives So many places, just...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 22, 2012
...X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable , by Robert K. Massie Reading my Father: A Memoir, by Alexandra Styron My Long Trip Home, by Mark Whitaker CURRENT INTEREST Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellow El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal...
Winnipeg Free Press, February 18, 2012
...as seen from both sides of the Atlantic. Lost literature Are all these volumes meant to celebrate what Alexandra Styron calls "the great and lost art of letter-writing"? If people -- especially our best-loved writers -- don't write letters to each other...
Hartford Courant, January 27, 2012
...consultant, will moderate the discussion. copies of "Reading My Father" will be on sale at the event, and Alexandra Styron will be available to sign them. The event is free, but registration is required. To register, email pa@renbrook.org. Renbrook...
ArtsBeat, October 14, 2011
...Podcast ArchiveListen to previous podcasts from the Book Review.In Sunday’s Book Review, Alexandra Styron reviews “The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout,” the new book from The Times’s executive editor, Jill Abramson. The book, which began...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, October 10, 2011
...shadows to tell the back stories of our great 20th century writers: Vonnegut; Cheever; Salinger; Jones. Most recently, Alexandra Styron wrote a book called Reading My Father, about growing up with Dad, Bill. Now, into this already crowded arena I offer...
Number One Novels, July 11, 2011
...currently reading? SS: I’ve just started The Paris Wife . I’m also reading Reading My Father , by Alexandra Styron. William Styron is a huge favorite of mine, and I’m curious to see him through his daughter’s eyes. Title: The Wedding Writer...