Alexandra Styron discusses her new memoir, Reading My Father. Her book is the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. Styron grew up in Connecticut and on Martha’s Vineyard, where her family’s vibrant social life included writers, presidents, and entertainers. She was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. William Styron, a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, was a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, searingly chronicled his midlife battle with major depression. He was also the author of the acclaimed novel, Sophie's Choice.