The 10 Most Classic Brooklyn Novels
William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
Styron lived in Brooklyn for, like, two months in 1949, in a place on Caton Avenue that today we’d call Ditmas Park (or Prospect Park South?). But it was apparently memorable enough decades later to become the setting for his most esteemed work, this novel about a struggling writer who befriends his rooming house neighbors, one of whom was in Auschwitz and has a terrible secret.