William Faulkner

In this newest volume in Oxford''s Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner''s life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in American literature. Porter ranges from Faulkner''s childhood in Mississippi to his abortive career as a poet, his sojou...