William Faulkner, American Writer: A Biography

By: Frederick R. Karl

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Synopsis: From the book: "This book attempts to integrate the latest in biographical information with Faulkner's own large body of work in fiction and poetry. It will not replace Joseph Blotner's monumental two-volume biography of Faulkner, which is an altogether different kind of book. I have not attempted to duplicate the full range of details of Faulkner's life that Professor Blotner has so ably researched and presented; but I have used the materials of Faulkner's work as biographical data in ways Professor Blotner did not attempt or intend to do. By integrating life and work, I have tried to avoid a chronicle or linear life study, which in other circumstances has its own kind of value. This study is in the deepest sense a biography: not only a presentation of the relevant facts of the subject's life, but an effort to understand and interpret that life psychologically, emotionally, and literarily. It tries to put Faulkner together- if not entirely as an understandable man then as a man who may be understood as America's greatest novelist of the twentieth century."