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The Confessions of Nat Turner

Pulitzer Prize Winner

Part of Vintage International

Author William Styron
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Nov 10, 1992 | 480 Pages | 978-0-679-73663-9
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In 1831, Nat Turner—slave, preacher, and leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that "peculiar institution"—awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. Styron's vastly ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize, is Turner's confession made to his jailers under the duress of God.  A narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel even as it encompasses all the betrayals, cruelties, and humiliations that made up slavery.
  • WINNER | 1968
    Pulitzer Prize
William Styron (1925–2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the US Marine Corps. His books include The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, and Darkness Visible. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, and the Légion d’Honneur. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried. View titles by William Styron

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In 1831, Nat Turner—slave, preacher, and leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of that "peculiar institution"—awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. Styron's vastly ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize, is Turner's confession made to his jailers under the duress of God.  A narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel even as it encompasses all the betrayals, cruelties, and humiliations that made up slavery.

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  • WINNER | 1968
    Pulitzer Prize

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William Styron (1925–2006), a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the US Marine Corps. His books include The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, and Darkness Visible. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, and the Légion d’Honneur. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried. View titles by William Styron

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