After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron’s daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. These essays, which reveal a reflective and humorous side of Styron’s nature, make possible a fuller assessment of this enigmatic man of American letters.
- ISBN10 1400067197
- ISBN13 9781400067190
- Publish Date 30 April 2008 (first published 8 April 2008)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 28 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 162
- Language English