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Faulkner On Faulkner

• AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• WAR
• THE YOUNG CRITIC
• THE APPRENTICE NOVELIST
• READING MOBY-DICK
• THEMES
• NOTES

In person Faulkner was reticent, and not just about himself. Memoirs by close publishing associates record that he could bring grown men to their knees by failing to make conversation at dinners and during official interviews. In print he was more forthcoming, especially in his letters. His interviews were sometimes valuable revelations of himself, even when they exposed eccentricities or included the tall tales he habitually told. Under the right conditions and with an interviewer he liked, Faulkner could be very explicit about his reading, his development as a writer, his methods, his ideals, and his relationship with the publishing industry and his reading...

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1. Introduction
2. About William Faulkner
3. Faulkner At Work
4. Faulkner’s Era
5. Faulkner’s Works
6. Faulkner On Faulkner
7. Study Questions
8. The Falkners Of Mississippi: A Supplementary Chronology
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

1. William Faulkner