# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-styron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:56:44.645Z

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name: "William Styron"
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description: "William Clark Styron Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump