Faulkner: Masks and Metaphors
That Faulkner was a "liar" not just in his writing but also in his life has troubled many critics. They have explained his numerous "false stories," particularly those about military honors he actually never earned and war wounds he never sustained, with psychopathological impos…
A William Faulkner encyclopedia
by Hamblin, Robert W., Peek, Charles A., Faulkner, William
"At various stages of his life, the celebrated American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) presented himself as a literary dandy, a shabby bohemian, a wounded war veteran, a humble farmer, a courtly lover, and a genteel but aloof Southerner. In private and public, he was master…
Presents critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism for The sound and the fury.
