William Styron

06.11.1925 - 11.01.2006

William Styron was an acclaimed novelist and essayist. Memoirs of depression.
 

"Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode."


— William Styron, Darkness Visible