Description

Description: Novelist William Styron thanks John Pitcherale for his “nice letter,” adding that he is “especially glad that [his] description of the Virginia landscape [had] struck . . . a familiar chord.” Signed “Very Sincerely / William Styron.” The letter is about his successful first novel, Lie Down in Darkness.

Autograph letter signed on an 11” x 7” sheet of Bobbs-Merrill Company-Inc. letterhead. Includes transmittal envelope addressed in Styron’s hand. Item #A02023

William Styron (1925-2006) was a successful American novelist and essayist. He won the 1968 Pulitzer for Fiction for The Confessions of Nat Turner.  Sophie’s Choice won the 1980 National Book Award.

John (Giovanni) P. Pitcherale (1919?-1998) was a friend of The Boston Symphony Orchestra.  He is also listed as one of the principal correspondents in The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Condition: Mailing fold lines, otherwise, very good condition.