An intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with, played with, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, the Bernsteins, Alexander Calder, John Hersey, and Lillian Hellman.

Here as well are the years of dedication and risk, traveling the world, from Pinochet’s Chile to El Salvador, Belfast, and Sarajevo, as Rose Styron, in search of those hiding from dictators and autocrats, bore witness to atrocities and human rights violations . . .

Styron writes of her childhood, born into a German Jewish, assimilated Baltimore family; a rebel from the start, studying poetry at Wellesley, Harvard, Johns Hopkins; traveling to Rome and her (second) meeting with Bill (the first time, “I can’t remember even shaking hands. I wasn’t thinking about him at all.”); their eventual marriage, and their more than fifty years together–in bucolic Roxbury, Connecticut, and on Martha’s Vineyard.

Rose Styron will be in conversation with her editor, Victoria Wilson. Ms. Wilson is a Vice President, Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers. She has served on the boards of PEN American Center, the National Board Review of Motion Pictures, the Writing Program of the New School for Social Research, and Poets & Writers. Wilson is the author of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907–1940, Volume One and is at work on the concluding volume.