Rose Burgunder Styron (born April 4, 1928) is an American poet, journalist, and human rights activist.
[4] Next, she earned her MFA at Johns Hopkins University, where she met her future husband, novelist William Styron, when she attended a reading he was giving.
[4]During the Spring Semester of 2009, Styron served as a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.
Rose Styron joined Amnesty International USA in 1970, after attending a writer's conference in Moscow and Tashkent.
[3] She has chaired PEN’s Freedom-to-Write Committee and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and has served on the boards of the Academy of American Poets, the Association to Benefit Children, and the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.
[3] As a journalist, Styron has published articles on human rights and foreign policy in many magazines, newspapers, and journals.
Rose Styron raised her family in Roxbury, Connecticut, but they often spent extended summers in Martha’s Vineyard[13] where she now permanently resides.