This account of America reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama out of which novels and the events emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression.
In this biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, and letters, to show the life and the artistic achievement of one of 20th-century America's most complex literary figures and to reveal Faulkner as powerful, vulnerable and real.
This account of America reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama out of which novels and the events emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression.