Alexandra Styron

[3][4] Styron attended Barnard College, and later the MFA Creative Writing program at Columbia University.

[5] After a brief stint as an actress, Styron turned to writing and is the author of several books.

Her most-noted work, the 2011 memoir Reading My Father, detailed her life growing up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and explored his decades-long struggle with major clinical depression.

[6] In The New York Times Book Review, James Campbell described the book as “brilliant and shocking.”[7] Reading My Father was nominated for the L.A. Times book award and long-listed for The New York Times bestseller list.

[8] Styron is a professor in the MFA Creative Writing program at Hunter College in New York City.