The Confession of Nat Turner Author:William Styron "Turner's rebellion took place in the long hot summer of 1831, in the state of Virgina. When it was over, 59 white people were dead; the insurgents were rounded up and either hanged or shown a clemency worse than death; and the preacher himself( Nat Turner) was induced to write a confession which Mr. Styron has managed to merge quite smoothly i... more »nto his novel...No historical novel has ever done more...Styron's version of the old South is not the usual derivative, Daddy's plantation stuff, but a place freshly imagined stone by stone" Wilfrid Sheed: New York TImes Book Review« less