UnNews:William Styron, inventor of styronfoam cup, dead at 81
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2 November 2006
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NEW YORK - William Styron, the Barnes and Noble Peace Prize-winning inventor of the styronfoam coffee cup and other inventions whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal demons, died Wednesday. He was 81.
Styron's daughter, Alexandra, said the inventor died of terminal ass disease at a discount hospital in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Styron, who had homes in Martha's Vineyard and Connecticut, had been in failing health for a long time, but not anymore, because he's dead.
"This is terrible," said Kurt Vonnegut, a longtime friend and noted hot coffee drinker. "He was dramatic, he was fun. He was strong and proud and he was awfully good with manipulating complex fluorocarbon chains. I hated to see him end this way."
A handsome, muscular man, with a strong chin and wavy dark hair that turned an elephant white, Styron was a Virginia native whose obsessions with race, class and personal guilt led to the invention of an all-purpose cup that would insulate the holder while keeping the beverage inside relatively hot or cold. He won the Inventor's Grand Prize despite protests that a white coffee cup was racist and inaccurate.
His other inventions included a machine for picking up socks from the bedroom floor, a way for a woman to choose which child the Nazis could kill, and a lightbulb made out of rock candy.
Services will be held.
