William Styron

I've been feeling a bit down lately. Maybe it's due to the weather (which, as our tv weatherperson assures me is "about to do a 360"). And now I've learned that novelist William Styron has passed on. I knew of Styron from reading Darkness Visible, a harrowing memoir of his dealing with Clinical Depression. He was also the author of The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.