 The op-ed garnered positive reception and compelled many readers to openly speak about their experiences with depression, ultimately inspiring Styron to begin documenting his own ordeal.In May 1989, William Styron delivered a lecture about his experience with depression at a symposium for affective disorders at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.Several months later, he adapted the lecture into an essay and published it in the December 1989 issue of "Vanity Fair".The following year, Random House published Styron's essay as a full-length memoir titled "Darkness Visible," which included additional material that had been excluded from the original work due to limited space in "Vanity Fair."