The great American novelist William Styron once wrote: "Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever." It is with great sadness that we mourn his passing , which occurred yesterday on Martha's Vineyard. Styron, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968, wrote Sophie's Choice , The Confessions of Nat Turner , A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth , Set This House on Fire, Lie Down in Darkness ,Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness , and This Quiet Dust: And Other Writings. He also helped found the famed literary magazine, the Paris Review, in 1953 with Romain Gary, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, James Baldwin, James Jones, and Irwin Shaw.