William Faulkner

In This Newest Volume In Oxfords Lives And Legacies Series, Carolyn Porter, A Leading Authority On William Faulkner, Offers An Insightful Account Of Faulkners 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 Faulkners Childhood In Mississippi To His Abortive Career As A Poet, His Sojourn In Orleans (where He Met A Sympathetic Sherwood Anderson And Wrote His First Novel Soldiers Pay), His Short But Strategically Important Stay In Paris, His Rescue By Malcolm Crowley In The Late 1940s, And His Winning Of The Nobel Prize. But The Heart Of The Book Illuminates The Formal Leap In Faulkners Creative Vision Beginning With The Sound And The Fury In 1929, Which Sold Poorly But Signaled The Arrival Of A Major Literary Talent.