The Legendary Rose Styron discusses her rich and fascinating memoir, Beyond This Harbor (Knopf).

 Styron talks about her life as poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess; as mother of four; grandmother of eight; as friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary; discoverer of Philip Roth, and longtime wife of Bill Styron, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist. 

Here discussed are the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with and played with, and the decades-long friendships with everyone from Truman Capote, George Plimpton and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, John Hersey, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lillian Hellman and many others.

“[Rose Styron] has lived a life in interesting times, among legendary characters, a life well worth telling—and reading about.” 

                            —The Washington Post