Selected Letters Of William Styron (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Styron probably submitted “Where the Spirit Is,” eventually published in the January 1944 issue of the magazine. † Elizabeth Buxton (1900–69) married William C. Styron in October 1941, becoming Styron’s stepmother. ‡ The original stage production of Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring. Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman was eventually made into a film starring Paul Lukas and Bette Davis. § Thomas Wolfe (1900–38), author of Look Homeward, Angel, was a major early influence on Styron’s writing. ‖ Styron quotes John Dos Passos, “The Camera Eye (21),” The 42nd Parallel. a The Northern Neck of Virginia lies between the Potomac River on the north and the Rappahannock on the south. Randolph Chowning was a friend from Christchurch. b “Where the Spirit Is.” c Bill, Sr., worked as a mechanical draftsman in the Newport News shipyards. d Published as “The Long Dark Road” in the March 1944 issue of The Archive and reprinted in One and Twenty: Duke Narrative and Verse, 1924–1945 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1945), which collected the writing of William Blackburn’s students.
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