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The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

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Name: William Styron
Birth Date: January 11, 1925
Place of Birth: Newport News, Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Styron
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William Styron (born 1925) was a Southern writer of novels and articles. His major works were Lie Down in Darkness,The Long March, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice. His major theme was the response of basically decent people to such cru...
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Biography of William Styron
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The critics received Lie Down in Darkness (1951) as an auspicious first novel, perhaps the best to appear since World War II. Its style, if reminiscent of Faulkner, was distinctly the author's own; its psychological insights, accurate; and its moral visi...
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Biography of William Styron
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The critics received Lie Down in Darkness (1951) as an auspicious first novel, perhaps the best to appear since World War II. If reminiscent of Faulkner, its style was distinctly the author's own; its psychological insights, accurate; and its moral visio...
 


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The Confessions of Nat Turner Summary
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The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron William Styron, a white writer and novelist, was born in 1925 in Newport News, Virginia, the same tidewater region where the real Nat Turner lived one hundred years earlier. Styron's grandmother grew up on...
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The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by U.S. writer William Styron. Presented as a first-person narrative by Nat Turner, the novel is a fictionalized account of the historical event of a slave revolt in Virginia in...


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The Washington Post
Nat Turner: No Hero
09/22/1999: 303 words, approx. 1 pages
It has been said that one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist. Still, I am baffled by anyone who makes a hero out of Nat Turner, who led a band of black slaves on a bloody rampage in Southampton County, Va., on Aug....
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The Washington Post
The Real Life and Death of Nat Turner;Getting to the Bottom of the Latest Antisemitic Allegation
04/24/1994: 1,256 words, approx. 4 pages
WHEN A mystical slave named Nat Turner was formally hanged by the deputy sheriff of Southampton County, Va., on Nov. 11, 1831, after leading a short-lived but bloody insurrection, he could never have imagined the use to which his death would be put 163...
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Reuters historical calendar - November 1
10/25/2007: 326 words, approx. 1 pages
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 1 since 1900: 1914 - Five German cruisers sank the British ships Good Hope and Monmouth at the Battle of Coronel off Chile during World War One, with...
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Styron, William Clark, Jr.
12/31/2006: 333 words, approx. 1 pages
American novelist (b. June 11, 1925, Newport News, Va. —d. Nov. 1, 2006, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts ), was noted for his treatment of tragic themes and his use of a rich, classical prose style. Styron served in the U.S. Marine Corps before graduating (1947) from...
 


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