Lisa C. Hickman Chronicles Faulkner, a Man Set on His Own Destruction Hickman’s new biography, ‘Between Grief and Nothing,’ exposes the author’s flaws while also cementing his genius ...

Jay Parini's new biography of William Faulkner, One Matchless Time, is nothing less than spellbinding. For all those university students who years ago were required to read such great tragedies as ...

He quickly fell under the city’s spell, finding in its French Quarter a poor man’s Paris where he could live cheaply and ...

William Faulkner wanted to fly as much as he wanted to write. His post-World War I novel “Soldier’s Pay” features a young cadet, who just missed serving in the war, claiming he would rather have been ...

A young writer with a talent for biography and criticism, HARVEY BREITis the Assistant Editor of the New York Times Book Review. We invited his appraisal of William Faulkner’s novels and short ...

William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing ...

NONFICTION: An elegant biography of William Faulkner explores his books' connection to the Civil War and to racism.

Review: Lisa C. Hickman’s ‘Between Grief and Nothing’ chronicles William Faulkner as a man set on his own destruction 5 hours, 46 minutes ago by David Wesley Williams / Chapter16.org ...

In “The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War,” part literary biography, part Civil War history, Michael Gorra presents a cogent case for Faulkner as one such prophet.