William Faulkner

In this highly acclaimed biography David Minter draws upon a wealth of material including the novelist''s essays interviews published and unpublished letters as well as his poems stories and novels to illuminate the close relationship between the flawed life and the artistic achievement of one of twentieth-century America''s most complex literary figures. In the process he reveals a Faulkner who is powerful vulnerable real-every bit as fascinating as the characters he created. Anyone who has ever tarried in Yoknapatawpha County will find this a sensitive and readable account of the novelist''s struggles in art and life. In his new preface Minter locates his biography in relation to the changes in the literary critical landscape during the 1980s and discusses its departures from New Critical tenets about the relationship between authors'' lives and their works.