His book "The Confessions of Nat Turner" earned him a Pulitzer Prize
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The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron  Reviews ...  The Confessions of Nat Turner has 11089 ratings and 362 reviews. ... contemplation of man's place in the universe and his duties to his fellow man. ... He is a man of God, and the book explores the circumstances that brought him to the decision to ..... The book was a big hit and won the Pulitzer Prize and then ran into the...
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William Styron - Author - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... Learn more about Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Styron, who wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice, on Biography.com. ... In order to discipline the unruly teen, his father sent him to Christchurch ... The book earned Styron the Prix de Rome of the Academy of Arts and Letters,...
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The Confessions of William Styron - WSJ  Jun 19, 2015 ... The Confessions of Nat Turner, published in 1967, bolstered his fame and earned him the Pulitzer Prize. ... black writers, who accused him of stereotyping and cultural appropriation, since the book is told from the perspective...
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William Styron 1925 - 2006 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Nov 2, 2006 ... William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist from the American South whose ... and moral questions earned him a place among the leading literary figures of. ... Southerner took the prize with `The Confessions of Nat Turner,' a fictional ... The cause was pneumonia, his daughter Alexandra Styron said.
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Five Interesting Facts About William Styron - Books Tell You Why  Jun 11, 2016 ... Styron's first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, earned him the Prix de ... "The next day I went all over Rome looking for a copy of his book so ... Despite that, The Confessions of Nat Turner won the coveted Pulitzer Prize in 1968.
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A controversial Pulitzer Prize brings Edith Wharton and Sinclair ...  Jun 28, 2011 ... In June 1921 Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Columbia trustees praised Wharton's twelfth novel for its wholesome atmosphere of American life and the highest standard of American manners and manhood. Wharton wondered whether they had really understood it.
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography - Wikipedia  The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes .... 1980s[edit]. Entries from this point on include the finalists listed after the winner for each year. ... Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough; Waldo Emerson by Gay Wilson Allen ... 1996: God: A Biography by Jack Miles.
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Pulitzer Prize Winner- One of Ours Life and Letters of Walter H. Page ...  The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1918) The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward William Bok (1921) ... The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of ... Adapted for the stage, Miss Lulu Bett won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.
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How Nat Turner Explained the Slave Rebellion He Led | TIME  Aug 22, 2016 ... Then, in 1967, the novelist William Styron's The Confessions of Nat ... an award-winning bestseller, which he called a meditation on history...
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1925: So Big, by Edna Ferber  Following Pulitzer  Dec 7, 2009 ... Literary Merit: A lot happens at the end of the book, much of which I'm ... What bothers me about Ferber is her willingness to draw lines ... As I noted in an earlier review, there were really two books here. .... not have heard of Ferber, but, like Steinbeck, she's a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (in 1925 for So Big)...
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A controversial Pulitzer Prize brings Edith Wharton and Sinclair ...
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Katherine Anne Porter - Wikipedia  Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890  September 18, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, .... Porter became an elected member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters...
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MacKINLAY KANTOR by John Apostolou - mystery*file on-line  MacKINLAY KANTOR AND THE POLICE NOVEL ... novel about an infamous Confederate prison camp, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1956.
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Frequently Asked Questions - The Pulitzer Prizes  John F. Kennedy was awarded the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book ... We discourage someone saying he or she was "nominated" for a Pulitzer...
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The Pulitzer Prizes | General Nonfiction  2010 David E. Hoffman The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms ... 1989 Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in ... 1973 Frances Fitzgerald Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam ... A remarkable work of nonfiction storytelling that exposes the cascade of...
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Confessions of Nat Turner, The (1967) - Encyclopedia Virginia  The Confessions of Nat Turner, a novel by William Styron , was published in 1967 and won ... (A slave named Gabriel conspired to revolt in 1800, but his plans were ... The story awaited the Virginia-born Styron, who translated the historical record ... The book that put Nat Turner on the cover of Newsweek magazine in the...
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John Cheever in Ossining - Ossining.Org  ... death in 1982. He was the winner of the the National Book Award in 1958 for the Wapshot Chronicle and of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for "The Stories of John Cheever". ... Very private thoughts over 40 years, made public at his urging soon before his death. .... Between 1957 and 1982, Cheever also published five novels.
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Sinclair Lewis, 'the Main Street burglary' and a rejection notice - The ...  Originally, the Pulitzer Prize for a novel was to go to a book 'which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life.' This left authors like ... After college he spent several years as a newspaper reporter and editor. ... Lewis told Harcourt he intended to turn it down because of the Main Street burglary. Lewis's...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron  Reviews ...  The Confessions of Nat Turner has 11085 ratings and 361 reviews. ... During my arrogant youth I signed up for a History of Slavery course, you know, so I .... beautiful and heartbreakingly poignant, William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner ... the book is nonetheless a deeply stirring contemplation of man's place in the...
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William Styron's Nat Turner and its Critics - JStor  pamphlet of some twenty pages called The Confessions of Nat Turner/ pub- lished in Richmond early in ... known facts about Nat Turner and the revolt of which he was the leader." He ... than a meditation on history.2. The initial ... historian and author of two books on slave revolts.3 Writing in The Nation ,. Aptheker took issue...
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Styron's Choice - 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' at 40 - The New ...  Sep 5, 2008 ... When William Styron published The Confessions of Nat Turner 40 ... The Confessions of Nat Turner, an account of an 1831 slave revolt in ... a slim volume of essays called William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond. ... he chose to write a meditation on history, giving him dimensions of...