Reading My Father, Alexandra Styron
Reading My Father, Alexandra Styron
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Reading My Father
A Memoir

Author: Alexandra Styron

Narrator: Alexandra Styron

Unabridged: 10 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2011

Synopsis

Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. From Styron’s youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written with humor, compassion, and grace.

About Alexandra Styron

Alexandra Styron is the author of the bestselling memoir Reading My Father and All the Finest Girls, a novel. Her work has appeared in several anthologies as well as in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Vanity Fair, among other publications. A graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, Alexandra is a professor of creative writing in the MFA program at Hunter College. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carol on November 16, 2019

Hi Everyone! My name is Alexandra Styron, and I'll be leading you on a guided tour of my famous father's total disintegration as a human being. William Styron was a very cool and famous writer with tons of cool and famous friends! To honor his memory, I'll be skimming over his early life (and his gre......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 30, 2011

I heard Alexandra Styron read from her memoir recently at The Mount in Lenox, MA (Edith Wharton's home). She's an excellent speaker and it was a riveting hour. I was therefore very much looking forward to reading her book, which I'd by chance found on the Swap Rack at my local cafe. The first half of......more

Goodreads review by K2 on April 20, 2011

I agree you'd have to be a Styron fan to want to read this book. It was an uneven read and there were many places while reading it I wanted to know more or I wanted to know less. She was obviously profoundly effected by her father's rage and moods, and perhaps it was too soon for her to write this b......more

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