His account, "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness," in some ways changed the arc of his career.
This state of mind, unfathomable to healthy people, is a common symptom of major depression, as William Styron's wrenching first-person account, "Darkness Visible," makes clear.
At midnight the exact details on the ground were still unclear, with the battlefield shrouded in darkness and the account of the main commander, Hazarat Ali, equally opaque.
The other first-time novelists selected are Suzanne McCourt for her South Australian-set fable, The Lost Child, and Christine Piper, whose book After Darkness – a fictional account of a Japanese doctor interned in Australia during the second world war – won her the Vogel literary prize in 2014.
In September, a PBS documentary titled "Not In Our Town: Light In The Darkness," gave an account of the events that lead to the death of Lucero, including a look at the legal case against the young men who committed the crime and community efforts to come to terms with racial tensions.
At 4 30, the courts at 100 Centre Street closed down on account of darkness.
We called the experiment on account of darkness after about 20 cuts; Mr. Poitras said the ideal bear's head takes 30.
Also important would be Amos Oz's memoir, "A Tale of Love and Darkness," perhaps the best account of the early days.
In "An Area of Darkness" (1964), Naipaul's account of his life in Trinidad and his first journey to India, he writes, "To our condition as Indians in a multi-racial society we gave no thought.
The game was finally called on account of darkness, but just before I left there was a bonus: Two black rhinos and a baby emerged silently from the bush and drank their fill not 20 feet away.
