Conversations with William Faulkner
"William Faulkner was not keen on giving interviews. More often than not, he refused, as when he wrote an aspiring interviewer in 1950, "Sorry but no. Am violently opposed to interviews and publicity."" "Yet in the course of his prolific writing career, the truth is that he submitted to the ordeal on numerous occasions in the United States and abroad." "Ranging from 1916, when he was a shabbily dressed young Bohemian poet, to the last year of his life, when he was putting finishing touches on his final novel The Reivers, they are collected here for the first time." "Many of these interviews and profiles provide descriptions of Faulkner, his home, and his daily world. They report not only on the things that he said but also on the attitudes and poses he adopted. Some capture him making up tall tales about himself, several of which gained credibility and became a part of the Faulkner mythology."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1999
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, ©1999
interviews
xvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781578061358, 9781578061365, 1578061350, 1578061369
40052084
The time has come / Ben Wasson
William Faulkner : man and writer / Hamilton Basso
William Faulkner : that writin' man of Oxford / Anthony Buttitta
A memoir of Faulkner in the early days of his fame / Anthony Buttitta
The Faulkner I knew / Maurice Edgar Coindreau
Faulkner in Hollywood / Laurence Stallings
The Faulkners : recollections of a gifted family / Robert Cantwell
My friend, William Faulkner / Stephen Longstreet
William Faulkner / Fred Woodress
William Faulkner at home / Sidney Landfield
Faulkner on writers and writing / Gene Roper, Jr
An interview with William Faulkner / Lavon Rascoe
First lectures at a university / A. Wigfall Green and Richard M. Allen
The private world of William Faulkner / Roark Bradford
Recollections on two artists at work in Courthouse Square / Stuart Purser
Novelist's advice put new spring in youth's step / Pinckney Keel
Faulkner without fanfare / Robert N. Linscott
Faulkner speaking / Time
My first day at Random House with William Faulkner / Hiram Haydn
Conversations with William Faulkner / John Cook Wyllie
Editor twice met Faulkner at National Book Awards / Mary Stahlman Douglas
Faulkner, lured to preview, bares long link with films / Commercial Appeal
Faulkner steps out of his "land of pharaohs" into Memphis / Edwin Howard
With Faulkner in Japan / Gay Wilson Allen
Faulkner in Massachusetts / Elizabeth Linscott
The last gentleman / Calvin Israel
Col. Sartoris and Mr. Snopes / Nancy Hale
Faulkner talks to reporters about integration, Virginians / Ted McKown
Faulkner in '57 / Syed Ali Ashraf
Hard, fast rules for writers : truthfulness, William Faulkner tells high school students / Daily Progress
Faulkner meets his local readers / Magdalen Andrews
Faulkner says negro must learn responsibility / Ted McKown
Through Faulkner's view-finder / Daily Princetonian
Faulkner answers student questions at University of Virginia session / M. Thomas Inge
Faulkner looks back at happy year at University of Virginia / Beverly Orndorff
Visit with the author / Newsweek
William Faulkner : visitors not welcomed / Joe Hyams
"Thank you" is remembered and the simple : "I write" / Christopher Paddack
Visit to two-finger typist / Elliott Chaze
Faulkner at West Point / Joseph L. Fant, III, and Robert Ashley