![]() ![]() ![]() Best of all, Styron said, was the response from many African-Americans. “The Confessions” got excellent reviews, appeared on the best-seller list, was sold to 20th Century Fox and won a Pulitzer Prize. ![]() It was a risky, even provocative book - he’d always known it would be - but the gamble appeared to have paid off. ![]() After six years of intense work, he had published, the previous fall, the novel he thought would cement his reputation: “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” an account of an 1831 slave revolt in Southampton County, Va., narrated in Turner’s voice. Nineteen sixty-eight began as a promising year for William Styron. ![]()
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