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BIO
I was born just before Halloween, 1966, in New Haven, Connecticut, the last of Rose
and William Styron's four children. My closest sibling, brother Tom, is seven years older
than I. So I am that peculiar hybrid: only child in a large family. Most of my childhood
was spent in a very small town in northwestern Connecticut, where I was a devoted
horseback rider and a indifferent student. After graduating from boarding school, I
went to Barnard College, receiving a B.A. in theater in 1987. For many years I was a
struggling actress in New York, co-founded a theater company, and kept afloat working as a
receptionist, personal trainer, and SAT coach (only the verbal section!). In my
mid-twenties, I spent three dispiriting years in Los Angeles where I learned a great deal
about what I was not and began at last to write seriously. A encouraging workshop teacher
urged me to go to graduate school and become a writer full-time. Packing my bags, I
returned east and enrolled in Columbia University's writing program. There I began my
first novel, All the Finest Girls, finishing the book two years after receiving
my MFA.
I still live in New York, with my fiance and my old Yellow Lab, though I manage to
escape nearly half the year to Massachusetts and the rolling Atlantic. I am just beginning
work on my second book.
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