This is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed.
Copyright © 2015 by Rose Styron
Foreword copyright © 2015 by Tom Brokaw
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the University of South Carolina Press for permission to reprint four lines from “In the Tree House at Night” by James Dickey (from The Complete Poems of James Dickey, copyright © 2013 The University of South Carolina)
Photograph on this page © Mariana Cook 1982
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Styron, William, 1925–2006, author.
[Essays. Selections]
My generation : collected nonfiction / William Styron; edited by James L. W. West III.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8129-9705-7
eBook ISBN 978-0-8129-9706-4
I. West, James L. W., editor. II. Title.
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