An illustrated biography of William Faulkner is something I’ve often wished for, with drawings that could evoke better than photographs the spirit of the place and the man who created so much great ...

Overstatement is one reason why biographies miss their mark as literature. Thus Jay Parini, describing the perilous plight of World War I pilots in his new biography of William Faulkner (HarperCollins ...

Hear the name William Faulkner and you think of his work. Short stories like “Barn Burning” or long ones like “The Bear,” such novels as The Sound and the Fury or Absalom, Absalom! The tangled prose, ...

"The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War," Michael Gorra's penetrating and elegantly written consideration of William Faulkner's writing and sensibility, takes its title from the author's most ...

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 number ...

Now that William Faulkner has been given so many honors — the Nobel Prize among others — it seems as though we have been familiar with his talents for a long time. It is a deceptive notion. With the ...