Rose Styron

Rose Burgunder Styron (born April 4, 1928) is an American poet, journalist, and human rights activist. She is a founding member of Amnesty International USA, becoming a board member in 1970.

Styron is the subject of the documentary In the Company of Rose, directed by James Lapine, which debuted in 2022. Her most recent book is a memoir, Beyond This Harbor, published in 2023.

Early life and education Rose Burgunder Styron was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1928, where she spent her childhood. The daughter of B. B. Burgunder (father) and Selma Kann, (mother), her family's heritage was German Jewish, though it was described as a secular, non-observant Jewish household. She was Class Poet and won Wellesley's John Masefield Prize for "the best poem written by a member of the senior class."

Writing career Styron is the author of four volumes of poetry. She has known that poetry was her deepest calling since the age of 9. where she now permanently resides.

Selected bibliography Poetry volumes From Summer to Summer (Viking Press, 1965) Thieves’ Afternoon (Viking Press, 1972) By Vineyard Light (Rizzoli, 1995) Fierce Day (Friesen Press, 2015)

Memoir Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023)

Translator Modern Russian Poetry. translated by Olga Andreyev Carlisle and Rose Styron Poets on Street Corners – Portraits of Fifteen Russian Poets (Random House, 1968)

Editor The Selected Letters of William Styron. w/ R. Blakeslee Gilpin (Random House, 2012)

Contributor Report on Torture (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975) Letters to My Father (Louisiana State University Press, 2009) Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression, edited by Nell Casey, (Harper Collins, 2002) Women Of Martha's Vineyard (History Press Library Editions, 2013)