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WILLIAM LIFE

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FAULKNER,

GLIMPSES

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"A biographerfashions a man or woman out ofseemingly intractable materials of archives, diaries, documents, dreams, a glimpse, a series of memories" —Leon Edel, "The Figure under the Carpet5'

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W I L L I A M FAULKNER, LIFE GLIMPSES

Louis Daniel Brodsky

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University of Texas Press, Austin

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Copyright © 1990 by Louis Daniel Brodsky All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition, 1990 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, Texas 78713-7819. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PubUcation Data Brodsky, Louis Daniel. William Faulkner, life glimpses / by Louis Daniel Brodsky. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-292-79048-1 (alk. paper) 1. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962—Biography. 2. Novelists, American—20th century—Biography. I. Title. PS3511.A86Z6355 813'.52—dc2o [B]

1990 89-28368 CIP

ISBN 978-0-292-75959-6 (library e-book) ISBN 978-0-292-75960-2 (individual e-book)

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For Jan, Trilogy, and Troika, my family, Charlotte and Saul, my parents, Robert W. Hamblin, my friend

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments Introduction GLIMPSES i. Life Masks 2. Poet-at-Large 3. "Elder Watson in Heaven55 4 . Bill and Buzz: Fellow Scenarists

5. From Fictionist to Polemicist 6. Sorting the Mail 7.