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Portrait of William Clark Falkner.

Until the publication of The Sound and the Fury, October 7, , William Faulkner knew more rejection than acceptance.

Until the publication of The Sound and the Fury, October 7, , William Faulkner knew more rejection than acceptance.

When Joseph Blotner wrote his two-volume biography of Faulkner, it earned a nickname among colleagues, the "blotter" biography.

William Faulkner () remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters.

Writing William Faulkner's Biography by Joseph Blotner William Faulkner, one by his brother John.

On September q,one day before Willie Falkner's fourrh birthday, his brother John Wesley Thompson Falkner was born.

Photo reproduction, on the dust jacket for The White Rose of Memphis (New York: Coley Taylor,).

William Faulkner's great-grandfather was called "Kunnel Falkner." He was a colorful figure whose life was the basis for family legend and pride.

As a boy William loved to hear the tales of his exploits during the Civil War. He read his great-grandfather's novels, too, including The Siege of Monterey (), The Spanish Heroine (), The Lost Diamond (), The Little Brick Church (1 ), and Rapid Ramblings in Europe ().

The White Rose of Memphis() was the elder Falkner's major work, incorporating some of the worst characteristics of melodrama, but also offering good characters in a fast-moving plot of violence, betrayal, and the rewards of true-love.

The novel was a great success, remaining in print for nearly three decades and appearing in thirty-five editions that sold approximately , copies.

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