1968

The Confessions of Nat Turner

By William Styron

Original Publisher: Random House

Current Publisher: Vintage; Open Road Integrated Media (ebook)

Fiction Finalists That Year:

• Norman Mailer for Why Are We in Vietnam?
• Joyce Carol Oates for A Garden of Earthly Delights
• Chaim Potok for The Chosen
• William Styron for The Confessions of Nat Turner

Fiction Winner That Year: Thorton Wilder for The Eighth Day

Fiction Judges That Year: Josephine Herbst, Granville Hicks, John Updike

The Year in Literature:

• The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
• Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for literature.

More Information: Styron won the National Book Award in 1980 for Sophie’s Choice and was a Fiction Finalist once previously, in 1952 for Lie Down in Darkness.

Links: www.nbafictionblog.org/nba-winning-books-blog/1980-5.html