Faulkner's First Biographies: Early Notices
Location
Nutt Auditorium
Start Date
19-7-2015 2:30 PM
Description
“The mysterious man from Mississippi cat-footed off the coastwise steamer Mallory at dawn today and ducked into a taxi.” This New York World Telegram profile, “William Faulkner, ‘Literary Hope’ from Mississippi Likens Himself in City to a ‘Houn’ Dawg Under a Wagon,’” published in 1931, presented an enigma, a man who said he had one friend in the North, one man he liked. What did the press and the first major profiles make of this startling writer, and how did those early notices shape our vision of an artist that biographers are still trying to comprehend?
Relational Format
Conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Rollyson, Carl, "Faulkner's First Biographies: Early Notices" (2015). Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. 2.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fy/2015/schedule/2
Faulkner's First Biographies: Early Notices
Nutt Auditorium
“The mysterious man from Mississippi cat-footed off the coastwise steamer Mallory at dawn today and ducked into a taxi.” This New York World Telegram profile, “William Faulkner, ‘Literary Hope’ from Mississippi Likens Himself in City to a ‘Houn’ Dawg Under a Wagon,’” published in 1931, presented an enigma, a man who said he had one friend in the North, one man he liked. What did the press and the first major profiles make of this startling writer, and how did those early notices shape our vision of an artist that biographers are still trying to comprehend?