Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron. Presented as a first-person narrative by historical figure Nat Turner, the novel concerns the slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. It is based on "The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia", a first-hand account of Turner's confessions published by a local lawyer, Thomas Ruffin Gray, in 1831.