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 ...

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 ...

"BETWEEN GRIEF AND NOTHING: THE PASSIONS, ADDICTIONS AND TRAGIC END OF WILLIAM FAULKNER" by Lisa C. Hickman (McFarland, 221 pages, $40). Hear the name William Faulkner and you think of his work.

"The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War," Michael Gorra's penetrating and elegantly written consideration of William Faulkner's writing and sensibility, takes its title from the author's most ...

Like the platypus who cannot decide whether he is flesh or fowl, a new secies has in recent years appeared in the zoo of critical writing. This is the work--basically an outgrowth of feature ...

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 ...

Harvard University's particular debt to William Faulkner who died in Oxford, Mississippi on July 6 at the age of 65, would at first seem to be of questionable nature. It is in Cambridge that Quentin ...

Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano. Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., a group ...

He was in his eighties, a retired lawyer and part of a reading group that had traveled from Arizona to the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 50th annual conference in Oxford, Miss., in July 2024. The group ...

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 ...