The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history race his relationship to art and his place in the canons of American and world literature. However some details on Faulkner's life collected by his early biographers never made it into published form or when they did appeared in marginalized stories and cryptic references. The biographical record of William Faulkner's life has yet to come to terms with the life-l