Life of william faulkner
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William Faulkner was born in the north Mississippi town of New Albany on September 25, Fifteen months later, his parents moved to nearby Ripley, where his great-grandfather had settled about A lawyer and a planter, William Clark Falkner had led a regiment north in to fight at First Manassas, and later he had served near home as colonel of his regiment of partisan cavalry. A successful novelist and railroad builder in the postwar years, he was fatally shot by a onetime business rival the day he was elected to the legislature.
Precocious as Billy Falkner was, he may well have absorbed some of his family lore before his parents moved southwest to Oxford just before his fifth birthday. There, with his three younger brothers, he enjoyed a comfortable small-town boyhood. He was a bright student, but eventually lost interest and dropped out during high school. He quit a job in his grandfather’s bank to pursue his real interest: writing verse. Encouraged by Phil Stone, an older and better educated friend, he remained in Oxford until the spring of , when he traveled north to share Stone’s student lodgings at Yale. That July, spelling his name Faulkner, he began pilot training in Toronto with the RAF-Canada. Although this experience ended with war, it profoundly affected his imaginat
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William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South—half backwoods, half defeated empire—transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha County and bestowing on the world some of the most revolutionary and enduring literature of the twentieth century. The personal story behind the work has fascinated readers nearly as much as the great novels, but Faulkner has remained elusive despite numerous biographies that have attempted to decipher his private life and his wild genius. In an ambitious biography that will encompass two volumes, Carl Rollyson has created a life of Faulkner for the new millennium.
Rollyson has drawn on an unprecedented amount of material to present the richest rendering of Faulkner yet published. In addition to his own extensive interviews, Rollyson consults the complete—and never fully shared—research of pioneering Faulkner biographer Joseph Blotner, who discarded from his authorized biography substantial findings in order to protect the Faulkner family. Rollyson also had unrivaled access to the work of Carvel Collins, whose decades-long inquiry produced one of the greatest troves of primary source material in American letters.
This first volume follows Faulkner from his formative years through his
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