With Kathleen Turner, Jill Clayburgh, and cameos by William Styron, Arthur Penn, and other eminences.

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Black activists argued that Styron had no place appropriating black history.

ECONOMIST: William Styron

The outcry from African-American novelists was so intense that a collection of essays, "William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond" was published a year later.

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But for Styron the Holocaust was an act of man, however terrible, and writing was a means to control and mediate the nature of the world.

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It is the second largest in Latin America, drawing more than half a million visitors, nearly two thousand publishers, and hundreds of authors, including, over the years, Nadine Gordimer, William Styron, and Toni Morrison.

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