Hear the name William Faulkner and you think of his work. Short stories like “Barn Burning” or long ones like “The Bear,” such novels as The Sound and the Fury or Absalom, Absalom! The tangled prose, ...

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 ...

Long before the modern field of Civil War Memory Studies became a part of the academy, memory of the war played a central role in the writing of William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. The two great ...

William Faulkner (1897 to 1962) was one of the greatest American writers. He won the Nobel Prize for literature. He wrote The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), A Light in August (1932) ...

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 ...

WILLIAM FAULKNER wrote most of his novels while living at Rowan Oak, a two-story Greek Revival home at the end of an allée of antebellum red cedars here. The place was barely fit for chickens when he ...