Editing William Styron (section)

==Later work and acclaim==
[[File:Bill Styron in his West Chop writing room on Martha's Vineyard - August 1989.jpg|thumb|right|Styron in 1989]]
Styron was awarded the [[St. Louis Literary Award]] from the [[Saint Louis University]] Library Associates.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html |title=Website of St. Louis Literary Award |access-date=July 26, 2016 |archive-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823003924/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |title=Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award |author=Saint Louis University Library Associates |access-date=July 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731082313/http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |archive-date=July 31, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Styron was awarded the [[Prix mondial Cino Del Duca]] in 1985.

His short story "Shadrach" was filmed in 1998, under the [[Shadrach (film)|same title]]. It was co-directed by his daughter Susanna Styron.

Other works published during his lifetime include the play ''In the Clap Shack''&nbsp;(1973), and a collection of his nonfiction, ''This Quiet Dust''&nbsp;(1982).

French president [[François Mitterrand]] invited Styron to his first Presidential inauguration, and later made him a Commander of the [[Legion of Honor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shophiltonvillage.com/WilliamStyron.htm|title=William Styron, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author|publisher=ShopHiltonVillage.com|access-date=December 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602015138/http://www.shophiltonvillage.com/WilliamStyron.htm|archive-date=June 2, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 1993, Styron was awarded the [[National Medal of Arts]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#93 |title=Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts |publisher=Nea.gov |access-date=June 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721054307/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#93 |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

In 2002 an opera by [[Nicholas Maw]] based on ''Sophie's Choice'' premièred at the [[Royal Opera House]] in [[Covent Garden]], [[London]]. Maw wrote the [[libretto]] and composed the music. He had approached Styron about writing the libretto, but Styron declined. Later the opera received a new production by stage director Markus Bothe at the [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]] and the [[Volksoper Wien]], and had its North American premiere at the [[Washington National Opera]] in October 2006.<ref name="NYT-Maw">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/arts/music/20maw.htm|title=Nicholas Maw, British Composer, Is Dead at 73 |work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Allan |last=Kozinn | author-link=Allan Kozinn|date=May 19, 2009| access-date=December 28, 2010}}</ref>

A collection of Styron's papers and records is housed at the Rubenstein Library, Duke University.<ref name=StyronPapers />

In 1996 William Styron received the 1st Fitzgerald Award on the centenary of F. Scott Fitzgerald's birth. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature award is given annually in Rockville Maryland, the city where Fitzgerald, his wife, and his daughter are buried, as part of the F. Scott [http://fscottfestival.org/ Fitzgerald Literary Festival]. In 1988 he was awarded the [[Edward MacDowell Medal]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/8447621/MacDowell-Medal-winners-1960-2011.html |title=MacDowell Medal winners {{mdash}} 1960{{ndash}}2011 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |access-date=December 6, 2019}}</ref>

He was a Charter member of the [[Fellowship of Southern Writers]].

===Port Warwick street names===
The [[Port Warwick]] neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia, was named after the fictional city in Styron's ''Lie Down in Darkness''. The neighborhood describes itself as a "mixed-use [[new urbanism]] development." The most prominent feature of Port Warwick is William Styron Square along with its two main [[boulevard]]s, Loftis Boulevard and Nat Turner Boulevard, named after characters in Styron's novels. Styron himself was appointed to design a naming system for Port Warwick, deciding to "honor great American writers", resulting in [[Philip Roth]] Street, [[Thomas Wolfe]] Street, [[Flannery O'Connor]] Street, [[Herman Melville]] Avenue and others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portwarwick.com/william-styron/ |title=William Styron |publisher=Portwarwick.com |access-date=January 29, 2018}}</ref>