Elham Gerami is the translator of the book, which has been published by Maneketab Publications in Tehran. William Faulkner (1897–1962) once remarked, “I am telling the same story over and over, which ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Although at first he didn’t even ...

Overstatement is one reason why biographies miss their mark as literature. Thus Jay Parini, describing the perilous plight of World War I pilots in his new biography of William Faulkner (HarperCollins ...

Pathography is Joyce Carol Oates’s word for literary biographers who dwell on “dysfunction and disaster, illnesses and pratfalls, failed marriages and failed careers, alcoholism and breakdowns and ...

Now that William Faulkner has been given so many honors — the Nobel Prize among others — it seems as though we have been familiar with his talents for a long time. It is a deceptive notion. With the ...

Back in the day, writer types often were fighter types. Mario Vargas Llosa once gave Gabriel Garcia Marquez a black eye. Wallace Stevens broke his hand on Ernest Hemingway’s face. Gore Vidal literally ...

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing number ...