Carl Rollyson is professor emeritus of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. He is author of many biographies, including Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volumes 1 & 2; William Faulkner Day by Day; The Last Days of Sylvia Plath; A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; and Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated. He is also coauthor (with Lisa Paddock) of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated. His reviews of biographies have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New Criterion. He also writes a column on biography twice a week for the New York Sun.

• Introduction: Life as a Text and the Text as LifePart One: Faulkner and BiographyBuilding a Better BiographyThe Historians of YoknapatawphaBiographical Fiction: A Faulknerian NovelInterview with Taylor BrownThe Foreigner in FaulknerCounterpull: Estelle and William Faulkner"Sole Owner and Proprietor": William Faulkner and Jean SteinReminiscing about William Faulkner at the University of Virginia: A Biographer’s OuttakesPart Two: Faulkner, Politics, and HistoryFaulkner’s ConservatismFaulkner the AntifascistFaulkner as FuturistWar No More: The Revolt of the Masses in A FablePart Three: Faulkner and HollywoodRecreating Absalom, Absalom!: Revolt in the EarthFaulkner’s Shadow: Hollywood, Hemingway, and PylonThe Stories of Temple Drake"Tomorrow" and Tomorrow: Faulkner into FilmThe Reivers: On and Off the ScreenPart Four: Faulkner and RaceThe White Man’s "Negro" in Faulkner CountryThe Twilight of Man in "Delta Autumn""Shooting Negroes"Caste from a Faulknerian Perspective: Intruder in the DustWhat Faulkner Could Not Imagine: The Life of James MeredithAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“Rollyson is the foremost living authority on Faulkner’s life and career. This book enhances that reputation.” - Robert W. Hamblin, professor emeritus at Southeast Missouri State University

Carl Rollyson is professor emeritus of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. He is author of many biographies, including Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volumes 1 & 2; William Faulkner Day by Day; The Last Days of Sylvia Plath; A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; and Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated. He is also coauthor (with Lisa Paddock) of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated. His reviews of biographies have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New Criterion. He also writes a column on biography twice a week for the New York Sun.

• Introduction: Life as a Text and the Text as LifePart One: Faulkner and BiographyBuilding a Better BiographyThe Historians of YoknapatawphaBiographical Fiction: A Faulknerian NovelInterview with Taylor BrownThe Foreigner in FaulknerCounterpull: Estelle and William Faulkner"Sole Owner and Proprietor": William Faulkner and Jean SteinReminiscing about William Faulkner at the University of Virginia: A Biographer’s OuttakesPart Two: Faulkner, Politics, and HistoryFaulkner’s ConservatismFaulkner the AntifascistFaulkner as FuturistWar No More: The Revolt of the Masses in A FablePart Three: Faulkner and HollywoodRecreating Absalom, Absalom!: Revolt in the EarthFaulkner’s Shadow: Hollywood, Hemingway, and PylonThe Stories of Temple Drake"Tomorrow" and Tomorrow: Faulkner into FilmThe Reivers: On and Off the ScreenPart Four: Faulkner and RaceThe White Man’s "Negro" in Faulkner CountryThe Twilight of Man in "Delta Autumn""Shooting Negroes"Caste from a Faulknerian Perspective: Intruder in the DustWhat Faulkner Could Not Imagine: The Life of James MeredithAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“Rollyson is the foremost living authority on Faulkner’s life and career. This book enhances that reputation.” - Robert W. Hamblin, professor emeritus at Southeast Missouri State University

Carl Rollyson is professor emeritus of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. He is author of many biographies, including Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volumes 1 & 2; William Faulkner Day by Day; The Last Days of Sylvia Plath; A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; and Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated. He is also coauthor (with Lisa Paddock) of Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated. His reviews of biographies have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New Criterion. He also writes a column on biography twice a week for the New York Sun.

• Introduction: Life as a Text and the Text as LifePart One: Faulkner and BiographyBuilding a Better BiographyThe Historians of YoknapatawphaBiographical Fiction: A Faulknerian NovelInterview with Taylor BrownThe Foreigner in FaulknerCounterpull: Estelle and William Faulkner"Sole Owner and Proprietor": William Faulkner and Jean SteinReminiscing about William Faulkner at the University of Virginia: A Biographer’s OuttakesPart Two: Faulkner, Politics, and HistoryFaulkner’s ConservatismFaulkner the AntifascistFaulkner as FuturistWar No More: The Revolt of the Masses in A FablePart Three: Faulkner and HollywoodRecreating Absalom, Absalom!: Revolt in the EarthFaulkner’s Shadow: Hollywood, Hemingway, and PylonThe Stories of Temple Drake"Tomorrow" and Tomorrow: Faulkner into FilmThe Reivers: On and Off the ScreenPart Four: Faulkner and RaceThe White Man’s "Negro" in Faulkner CountryThe Twilight of Man in "Delta Autumn""Shooting Negroes"Caste from a Faulknerian Perspective: Intruder in the DustWhat Faulkner Could Not Imagine: The Life of James MeredithAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“Rollyson is the foremost living authority on Faulkner’s life and career. This book enhances that reputation.” - Robert W. Hamblin, professor emeritus at Southeast Missouri State University