The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American writer William Styron.

It is a fictional retelling 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 R. Gray, in 1831.

[2] The novel is based on an extant document, Turner's "confession" to his white lawyer, Thomas R.

[1] In the historical confessions, Turner claims to have been divinely inspired.

Some scholars believe that mental illness may have driven Turner's actions.