 First edition cover | |
| Author | William Styron |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1967 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 480 |
| ISBN | 0-679-60101-5 (1st ed) |
| OCLC | 30069097 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.T9 C6 1994 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron. Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia in 1831. It is a fictional retelling based on The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas R. Gray, in 1831.[1]
Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.[2]
- ^ Gray, Thomas Ruffin (1831). "The Confessions of Nat Turner" (PDF).
- ^ "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005", Time Magazine, accessed 17 April 2009