Understanding Faulkner

[Captain Huk]

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/r...ding-faulkner/

A review of: On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner. By Cleanth Brooks. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

[CaryC]

Thanks Captain Huk,

And for those who may not know:

William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːlknər/, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.^[1]
Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.^[2]

Which is only about 45 miles from here.

I really enjoyed "The Reivers". Which was made into a movie Steve McQueen plays Boon Hoggenbeck. It's sort of in the style of O brother where art thou.

Two other notables from Oxford are John Grisham, and Eli Manning who played football for Ol' Miss.