William Styron

June 11,1925 – November 1,2006

William Styron,author,writes about his own depression in his book,“Darkness Visible:A Memoir of Madness,”(1990) and his decision to seek help. His earlier works which he wrote prior to his diagnosis and admission of his illness described with uncanny accuracy,the symptoms and the problems he would experience later in his life. He was one of the first to write about other famous persons who struggled with mental illness and for explaining the almost unexplainable experience of a brain disorder to those who had never experienced it in a way which gained their sympathy and admiration.