![]() ![]() ![]() Oates's Faulkner: The Man and the Artist (1987), Frederick R. ![]() A number of new biographies have appeared in the last decade, including Stephen B. Connections between Faulkner's life and work are common in the criticism, and the best examples of the approach are Judith Wittenberg's Faulkner: The Transfiguration of Biography (1979) and David Minter, William Faulkner: His Life and Work (1980). Joseph Blotner published his massively thorough, two-volume Faulkner: A Biography in 1974, and followed it with a revised, condensed one-volume edition ten years later. The first followed the Nobel Prize, when journalist Robert Coughlan published The Private World of William Faulkner (1954), a very insightful set of personal impressions. Faulkner is an enigma that scholars, critics, and biographers have never fully reconciled, and not for lack of trying. ![]()
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