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Styron

American  
[stahy-ruhn] / ˈstaɪ rən /

noun

  1. William, 1925–2006, U.S. author.


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“The board’s No. 1 rule is to oversee the organization and it’s hard to do that if the decisions you make directly affect your pay,” said Styron of CharityWatch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Laurie Styron, chief executive of CharityWatch, said there can be an incentive for Croom’s company to produce fewer or less-quality meals to have a higher profit margin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Unlike William Styron, Kay Redfield Jamison and Andrew Solomon—authors whom she invokes—Ms. Back, a poet and professor of English at Oranim Academic College, experienced what she refers to as “high-functioning depression.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Instead, she circled the globe, and a gilded social circuit, speaking and writing and lending the Styron name in support of human rights.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Duke alumnus William Styron sent a note expressing his “fullest sympathy and support.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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