Editing Nat Turner (section)

=== Literature ===

* In 1884, ''[[The Cleveland Gazette]]'' published the poem "Nat Turner" by [[Timothy Thomas Fortune]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Primary Source: Remembering Nat Turner |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/primary-source-remembering |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=NCpedia |publisher=State Library of North Carolina}}</ref>
* [[Sterling Allen Brown]], the first [[Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia]], wrote the poem, "Remembering Nat Turner" in 1932.<ref name=":7">Scott, Jr., Nathan A. "The Return of Nat Turner: History, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Sixties America". ''The Southern Review'' 28, no. 4 (1992): 965+. ''Gale Academic OneFile'' (accessed July 18, 2024).</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Poem: Remembering Nat Turner by Sterling Allen Brown |url=https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/remembering-nat-turner |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=poetrynook.com}}</ref><ref>Gabbin, Joanne V. [[doi:10.2307/3042567|"Sterling Brown's Poetic Voice: A Living Legacy"]]. ''African American Review'' 31, no. 3 (1997): 423–31. accessed July 18, 2024.</ref><ref>Callahan, John F. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3299763 "'A Brown Study': Sterling Brown's Legacy of Compassionate Connections"]. ''Callaloo'' 21, no. 4 (1998): 899–900. {{JSTOR|3299763}}.</ref>
* ''[[The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)|The Confessions of Nat Turner]]'' (1967), a novel by [[William Styron]], won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 1968.<ref name=":2">Tanenhaus, Sam (August 3, 2016). "[https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/08/the-literary-battle-for-nat-turners-legacy The Literary Battle for Nat Turner's Legacy]". ''Vanity Fair''. Retrieved December 10, 2022.</ref> Styron's work was controversial, with some criticizing the White author for writing about such an important Black figure and calling him racist for portraying Turner as lusting for a White woman.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
* In response to Styron's novel, ten Black scholars and authors published a collection of essays, ''William Styron's'' The Confessions of Nat Turner'': Ten Black Writers Respond'' (1968).<ref name=":2" />
* In 2006, [[Kyle Baker]]'s graphic novel, ''Nat Turner'', received the [[Eisner Awards|Eisner Award]] for Best Reality-Based Work and the [[Glyph Comics Awards|Glyph Comic Award]] for Best Story of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jaffe |first=Meryl |date=February 19, 2014 |title=Using Graphic Novels in Education: Nat Turner – Comic Book Legal Defense Fund |url=https://cbldf.org/2014/02/using-graphic-novels-in-education-nat-turner/ |access-date=2022-12-10 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Sharon Ewell Foster published her novel, ''The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part One, The Witness, A Novel'' in 2011.<ref>Foster, Sharon Ewel. ''The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part One, The Witness, A Novel''. Howard Books, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-4165-7803-1}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Resurrection of Nat Turner |url=https://www.wunc.org/show/the-state-of-things/2011-08-31/the-resurrection-of-nat-turner |access-date=2024-02-21 |publisher=WUNC |language=en}}</ref>