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COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

The Mississippi Quarterly, v. 26, Summer 1973. Copyright 1973 Mississippi State University. Reproduced by permission.

The New York Times, July 11, 1999. Copyright (c) 1999 by The New York Times Company. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

From Essays,Speeches & Public Letters. Edited by James B. Meriwether. New York: Random House, 1965. All reprinted with permission.

Malcolm Cowley. From The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944-1962. New York: Viking, 1966. Copyright (c) 1987 by Viking Press. Used by permission of Viking Press, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

From Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926- 1962. Edited by James B. Meriwether and Michael Millgate. New York: Random House, 1968. All reprinted with permission.

From The Mansion. New York: Random House, 1959. Reprinted with permission.

From The Marble Faun and A Green Bough. New York: Random House, 1965. Reprinted with permission.

From Modernism: 1890-1930. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane. London: Penguin, 1991. Copyright (c) 1991. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books, Ltd.

From Selected Letters of William Faulkner. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York: Random House, 1977. All reprinted with permission.

From Thinking of Home: William Faulkner’s Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925. Edited by James G. Watson. New York: Norton, 1992. Copyright (c) 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Reproduced by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

From Uncollected Stones of William Faulkner. Edited by Joseph L. Blotner. New York: Random House, 1979. Reprinted with permission.

From William Faulkner: Early Prose ad Poetry. Edited by Carvel Collins. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

“Mr. Faulkner is Visited by The Muse.” Illustration in The Book man, November 1932.

Drawing for the University of Mississippi yearbook, 1920. From William Faulkner: Early Prose and Poetry. Edited by Carvel Collins. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962

Murry “Jack” Falkner; Sallie Murry Wilkins; William Faulkner; seated, Johncy Falkner. From Faulkner’s County, by Martin Dain. New York: Random House, 1965. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Sallie Murry Wilkins Williams.

Louisiana State University Press

1962 studio portrait by J. R. Cofield. From William Faulkner of Oxford. Edited by James W. Webb and A. Wigfall Green. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

University Press of Mississippi

Drawing for a projected high school yearbook, 1914. From Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. Vol. I: The Biobibliography. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982.

University Press of Virginia

William Faulkner, drawing for Marionettes. Introduction and textual apparatus by Noel Polk. Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, 1977.

Yoknapatawpha Press

The four Falkner brothers in 1910: Jack, William, John, and Dean. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 37.

William Faulkner, 1920, in RAF cadet uniform. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 55.

William Faulkner in New Orleans, 1925. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 70.

William Faulkner in Paris, 1925. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 71.

Estelle Oldham Franklin and her daughter, Victoria. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 73.

Faulkner at Rowan Oak in 1931. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p.80.

Faulkner with Waco four-place cabin cruiser in 1934. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 95.

Faulkner at the premiere of the movie adaptation of Intruder in the Dust. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 143.

Faulkner with his younger brother John, 1949. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 146.

Faulkner with daughter, Jill, departing for Stockholm to accept the Nobel Prize in literature. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p.150.

Faulkner at the Nobel ceremony in formal dress. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 152.

Faulkner with Ben Wasson, 1952. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 156.

Faulkner in Memphis, 1955. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 170.

Faulkner at the United States Military Academy, 1962. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 186.

Faulkner jumping Temptress (“Tempy”) over a low hurdle at his Oxford home. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 182.

Faulkner in riding clothes for the Virginia fox hunts. From William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection, by Jack Cofield. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1978, p. 9.