| Author Quoted | William Clark Styron |
| Title Quoted | Confessions of Nat Turner |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1968/01/05 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Random House. 1967 |
| Quotation | Nat Turner is nothing but Styron's own complex loneliness as a Southern writer. A well-fashioned book, but little or nothing to do with the real Turner"”I have no sense that this fastidious and analytical mind is that of a prophet. |
| Journal | The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 34 |
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