William Styron was born on June 11, 1925, in Newport News, Virginia. He published his first novel, LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS, in 1952. In 1968 he won a Pulitzer Prize for THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER. In 1979 he published SOPHIE'S CHOICE, which was made into a film in 1982 and an opera in 2002. Styron continued to write throughout the 1990s. He died November 1, 2006 on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Books by William Styron

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron - Fiction, Historical Fiction

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia that led to the deaths of almost 60 men, women and children. Published at the height of the civil rights movement, the novel draws upon the historical Nat Turner’s confession to his attorney, made as he awaited execution in a Virginia jail.