Styron

There, Sam Shepard read cowboy poems and William Styron talked about his latest novel.

Poet, journalist and human rights activist Rose Styron, widow of novelist William Styron, gets a welcome profile from a friend and neighbor, director James Lapine.

She typed Styron’s work for nearly a decade.

It’s easy to see what drew Lapine to Styron as a comrade and why he felt so moved to document their discussions, even if he admittedly didn’t start with a particularly clear structure or direction.

Her most recent, “Fierce Day,” a coming to terms with the death of her husband, the author William Styron, in 2006, was published in 2015.