'Sophie's Choice' Writer's Family Sued Over Stage Rights Deal

By Brian Dowling ( January 11, 2024, 7:40 PM EST) -- A writer tasked by the late "Sophie's Choice" author William Styron to bring the Holocaust drama to the stage claims the author's family breached an agreement granting him the rights and tanked efforts underway for a Hollywood producer to adapt the 1979 novel, according to a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court....

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