The author chronicles his personal battles with severe depression, and offers help to others on how to overcome this disorder. "In the summer of 1985, William Styron, the acclaimed author of Sophie's Choice, was overtaken by persistent insomnia and a troubling sense of malaise--the first signs of a deep depression that would engulf his life and leave him on the brink of suicide. In Darkness Visible the great novelist describes his horrific descent...

These recordings of twentieth-century American authors interpreting their own works were highly praised when first released in the 1960s. Today the cultural and historical value of these recordings makes them an essential part of our literary heritage.