the american author william styron wrote a short vignette entitled "elobey, annobón, and corisco", about his time as a young marine officer during world war ii. his childhood memories of stamp collecting (including stamps from the guinean islands) are a welcome distraction from the dread and fear he feels when he thinks of the approaching battle of okinawa. although written in 1985, the vignette was not published until 2009, in the collection of marine-related short stories "the suicide run" (random house 2009).