“Tell About the South”: The Life and Letters of William Styron

The Center for the Study of the American South welcomes
Blake Gilpin & Rose Styron
“Tell About the South”: The Life and Letters of William Styron
Thursday, February 14, 12:30 – 2:00
@ the Love House & Hutchins Forum
Lunch will be served
RSVP Required at csas@unc.edu by Monday, February 11

R. Blakeslee Gilpin is the author of John Brown Still Lives! America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change, winner of the C. Vann Woodward Prize for the best dissertation in Southern history. His writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The American Scholar, and The New York Times. An assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, Gilpin specializes in the history, literature, and culture of the American South. He is currently at work on a new biography of William Styron.

Rose Styron is a poet, journalist, translator, and human rights activist. She has published three books of poetry: Thieves’ Afternoon, From Summer to Summer, and By Vineyard Light. At the forefront of the field of international human rights since she joined the board of Amnesty International USA in 1970, she has chaired PEN’s Freedom to Write Committee and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Currently, for the Academy of American Poets, she co-chairs, with Meryl Streep, Poetry and the Creative Mind.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South, co-sponsored by American Studies