Letters to My Father

by L.W. James West Iii, Rose Styron, William Styron

Book Overview

I've finally pretty much decided what to write next--a novel based on Nat Turner's rebellion, twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but this letter undercuts those critics who later attacked the writer as an opportunist capitalizing on the heated racial climate of the late 1960s. From 1943...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807134007
• ISBN13: 9780807134009
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"