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For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

William Styron

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William Styron
Age: 81 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 11
Died: 2006
Died: November 1
Military Personnel
Novelist
Writer
Newport News
Virginia
William Clark Styron
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