William Faulkner

David Minter is Libbie Shern Moody Professor of English at Rice University. He is the author of The Interpreted Design as a Structural Principle in American Prose and A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner.

One emerges from reading it with fresh understanding of Faulkner both as man and writer, with feelings of sympathy and, even more, admiration. Times Higher Education Supplement Any future Faulkner biographer-and there will be others, rest assured of that-will find it difficult to surpass what Minter has accomplished. -- Jonathan Yardley Washington Post One emerges from reading [Minter's book] with a fresh understanding of Faulkner both as man and writer, with feelings of sympathy and, even more, admiration. -- Richard Gray Times Higher Education Supplement The great virtue of David Minter's book is that he knows that the question of who a man was is less interesting than that of whom he wished to become... It is in the poems and the novels that we can trace the self to which Faulkner aspired. -- Lachlan Mackinnon Times Literary Supplement