styron is here, she is an author and has written a memoir about her family, great american writer william styron. in the book reading my father, alexandra explores history uchls and his challenges. bill styron's book includes lie down in darkness, stove -- sophie's choice, both achieved enormous success. he also struggled with depression. william styron appeared on this broadcast several times. here he is in 1993, talking about the writing craft. >> you know, the imaginative act is just that. it is trying to search for levels of meaning that you are quite unaware that you possess. i me it's tapping into yo subconscious. you sit down, at first you have no idea what you are going do and allf a dden after an hr you suddenly realize you're seeing things you have not even known existed. you don't dredge it up. it pops up. and there is a kind of astonishing. they're revelations, epiphaes as george used to call them. these nd of moments, i don't mean to sound fancy. they're not spiritual experiences but they are enormously fascinating revelations of what goes on in one's subconscious. >> rose: bill sty