As for me, my ongoing discourse with Arthur has gone beyond shared observations about government and politics to cover such matters as Arthur's deep interest in southern writers, and particularly
William Faulkner. We recently had a serious debate about Faulkner when I was required to write a critical paper on The Sound and the Fury for the Novel Club of Cleveland.
When
William Faulkner was in Japan, as a kind of cultural showpiece for the State Department, he said in interview many interesting things, among them this: "I would say, and I hope, the only school I belong to, that I want to belong to, is the humanist school" Since his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1950, Faulkner has made countless public statements along these same lines until they have become almost repetitious.
"Yoknapatawpha: A Photographic Study of Faulkner's Country" is a photographic journey through the hometown of acclaimed southern classical author
William Faulkner. Drawing from Faulkner's work, author George G.
But he was equally talented as an adapter and screen writer, at ease with the work of such giants as
William Faulkner and John Steinbeck.
The PEN/Faulkner award for fiction was established with money donated by
William Faulkner from his Nobel prize winnings.
Whatever his major or vocation, this
William Faulkner could use a lot of improvement in his writing.
Most literate Americans would reserve `great novelist' for William James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philip Roth, John Cheever, and
William Faulkner, among others." Then Dickey tells Keefer he "should contain his tendency toward hyperbole."
Shovels, old black suits, and barbed wire set the scene for a butoh exploration of
William Faulkner titled Caddy!
The more intensely
William Faulkner focused on his unpronounceable county in Mississippi, the more intelligible he became to readers in all comers of the world (5).
One poster features notable Mississippi writers like
William Faulkner and Eudora Welty.
