William Faulkner

(1897-1962)


American novelist and short story writer. Modernist.

Author's life and works

Literature Online biography

"William Faulkner Explorations"
From The Norton Anthology of American Literature

"Faulkner biography" short, From Meyer Literature, Bedford St.Martins

"Long biography with photos From Mississippi Writers Page

Paris Review Interview

e-books
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A William Faulkner encyclopedia, edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Charles A. Peek, 1999
Available as e-book in ebrary from UB

William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: a casebook, edited by Fred Hobson, Available as e-book in ebrary from UB


Faulkner as short story writer

Hans H. Skei, "The Short Story Genre and Faulkner's Contribution to It." From Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories, pp. 32-41. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

Sandra Lee Kleppe, "Faulkner, Welty, and the Short Story Composite." In The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis, edited by Per Winther, Jakob Lothe, and Hans H. Skei, pp. 172-80. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.


"A Rose for Emily”

Dilworth, Thomas: "A romance to kill for: homicidal complicity in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily." From Studies in Short Fiction, 1999.

"Styles of Reading" by George L. Dillion from Poetics Today, 1982.

Getty, Laura J.: "Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'." From Explicator (Summer 2005)


"That Evening Sun"

"'That Evening Sun': A Skein of Uncertainties,"
by Laurence Perrine, from Studies in Short Fiction, 1985

"Critical Essay on 'That Evening Sun'" by Greg Barnhisel, from Short Stories for Students, 2001

"Faulkner in Context: Seeing 'That Evening Sun' through the Blues."
by Carol B. Gartner, from Southern Quarterly 34, no. 2 (winter 1996)


Criticism of other work

"The Narrator of Faulkner's `Barn Burning'"
by Susan S. Yunis, from The Faulkner Journal, Spring, 1991

"Little men in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'The Reivers'." by Caroline Miles, from The Faulkner Journal, Fall 1999/Spring 2000

"Faulkner and race: art and punditry." by Edwin M. Yoder Jr., from Virginia Quarterly Review: a national journal of literature and discussion, Autumn 1997
This article discusses Light In Auust (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Go Down, Moses (1942)

Links

William Faulkner on the Web by John B. Padgett

Williams Faulkner at the Mississippi Writers Page