The Confessions of Nat Turner - Hardcover

A special anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel based on the real-life story of an abortive slave rebellion in 1831 gives a chilling account of a noble man's moral decline. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1928.  After graduating from Duke University in 1947, he lived in Paris as part of the American expatriate community. He also served as advisory editor to the "Paris Review."

Styron's novels include, Lie Down in Darkness (1951); The Long March (1956); Set This House on Fire (1960); and The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), the Pulitzer prize-winning novel based on Turner's own testimony of the bloodiest black slave rebellion  he led in Virginia in 1831. A Tidewater Morning, three tales about a boy growing up in a Virginian tidewater town, was published in 1993.

His non-fiction work includes This Quiet Dust (1982), a collection of