William Styron
During the ten years from 1951 to 1960, he published his first three novels (Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, and Set This House on Fire). His fourth novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner was both popular and a problem. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968. But many Black readers and critics did not like the book. The book was written in the voice of a 19th century Black man. They thought that Styron, a White author, did not understand the ways of African Americans.