It is Lucius who narrates the tale from the vantage point of the early 1960s ... absolutely nothing -- to compare with the life's work of William Faulkner. From beginning to end his achievement ...

Hickman’s new biography, ‘Between Grief and Nothing,’ exposes the author’s flaws while also cementing his genius ...

In November 1952, the Ford Foundation sent a documentary crew to Oxford, Mississippi, to create a brief portrait of William ... believed that Faulkner’s writing was often ingeniously evasive on the ...

William Faulkner, the South’s finest novelist, was fascinated by the history of his native land. Jean-Paul Sartre once compared a Faulkner character to a passenger in a speeding car. Only ...

In Faulkner’s own era, popular writers such as Stark Young and Margaret Mitchell did their part to revive nostalgia for plantation life ... In Faulkner’s early novel Flags in the Dust ...

William Faulkner (1897–1962) once remarked ... From this foundation, Hamblin meticulously traces the milestones of Faulkner’s life, from his formative years and early poetic endeavors to his time in ...

Despite showing highly promising grades early on in his education, Faulkner began ... include a “u," just like William). Like his elder brother, John wrote about life in Mississippi, though ...

the culture that made William Faulkner.” Faulkner’s perceptions of the myths and realities that defined his actual Southern milieu form the essential outline of his life and the crucial ...