William Faulkner bibliography
William Faulkner (1897–1962)[1] was an American writer known for his Southern Gothic novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi.[2][3] He is widely considered the preeminent writer of Southern literature and among the most significant figures in American literature.[4][5] In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel".[6]
In 1919, as a student at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner published his first work, the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", in The New Republic.[7] While living in New Orleans in 1925, he published over a dozen short stories collectively known as the "New Orleans Sketches".[8] Faulkner's first novels—Soldiers' Pay (1926) and Mosquitoes (1927)—were not successful, and his third, Flags in the Dust, was rejected by publishers before its publication as the abridged Sartoris (1929).[9] Convinced that he "would never be published again", Faulkner wrote the experimental and deeply personal The Sound and the Fury.[10] Written in stream of consciousness, the novel was published in 1929 with few sales due to the onset of the Great Depression.[11][12] It is now considered among his greatest works.[13][14]
Faulkner expanded on his stream of consciousness approach in As I Lay Dying, which is narrated by 15 characters bringing a mother to her grave in Yoknapatawpha.[15][16] Aspiring to create a commercial work, Faulkner wrote the sensationalist Sanctuary (1931).[17] Although its violence and sexuality were controversial, the novel was immensely successful and brought new attention to his previous works.[18] Subsequent novels in that decade—namely Light in August (1932) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936)—are regarded as among his best and have both been hailed as the "Great American Novel".[19][20][21] His 1949 novel The Hamlet launched the Snopes trilogy, completed by The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959). Faulkner's 1954 novel A Fable, which follows a Christ-like corporal in World War I, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.[22] He published his 19th and final novel, The Reivers, in 1962, the year he died. The work garnered him a second Pulitzer posthumously.[23]
Beyond his novels, Faulkner was a prolific short story writer. In addition to short story collections, two novels—The Unvanquished (1938) and Go Down, Moses (1942)—consist of interrelated short stories. In 1932, director Howard Hawks, impressed by his work, invited Faulkner to California to adapt his short story "Turn About" into the film Today We Live (1933).[24] Until 1954, Faulkner split his time between Oxford and Hollywood, working as a screenwriter on some 50 film projects and becoming a frequent collaborator and close friend of Hawks.[25][26] Some screenplay contributions, such as those to Gunga Din (1939), were uncredited, and many of his scripts were never produced. In addition to several speeches, book reviews, and book introductions, Faulkner also wrote essays on topics ranging from Albert Camus to Japan.
Prose fiction
Novels
Year | Title | Publisher | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1926 | Soldiers' Pay | Boni & Liveright | Faulkner's debut novel | [27] |
1927 | Mosquitoes | Boni & Liveright | Set on Lake Pontchartrain, features Faulkner himself in a cameo | [27][28] |
1929 | Sartoris | Harcourt, Brace | An abridged version of Flags in the Dust. The original manuscript was published posthumously by Random House in 1973. | [29] |
1929 | The Sound and the Fury | Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith | First appearance of the Compson family. Faulkner wrote an appendix to the novel, "Compson 1699–1945", for The Portable Faulkner (1946). | [27][30] |
1930 | As I Lay Dying | Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith | [27] | |
1931 | Sanctuary | Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith | [31] | |
1932 | Light in August | Harrison Smith & Robert Haas | [32] | |
1935 | Pylon | Harrison Smith & Robert Haas | Not set in Yoknapatawpha County | [33][27] |
1936 | Absalom, Absalom! | Random House | Second novel featuring Quentin Compson, after The Sound and the Fury | [34][35] |
1938 | The Unvanquished | Random House | A collection of seven interrelated short stories, six of which are revisions of stories previously published in The Saturday Evening Post. "An Odor of Verbena" is original to The Unvanquished. | [36][37] |
1939 | The Wild Palms | Random House | Two stories, not set in Yoknapatawpha County, intertwined in what Faulkner called "counterpoint" structure. His original title was If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem. | [38][39][36] |
1940 | The Hamlet | Random House | The first book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy | [36][40] |
1942 | Go Down, Moses | Random House | Consisting of interrelated short stories about the McCaslin family, Faulkner regarded it as a novel. | [41][42] |
1948 | Intruder in the Dust | Random House | Shares characters like Gavin Stevens and Lucas Beauchamp with Go Down Moses | [43][44] |
1951 | Requiem for a Nun | Random House | Sequel to Sanctuary, written as a play with prose parts preceding each act | [45][46] |
1954 | A Fable | Random House | Not set in Yoknapatawpha County, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1955 | [47][48] |
1957 | The Town | Random House | The second book in the Snopes trilogy | [49][50] |
1959 | The Mansion | Random House | The third book in the Snopes trilogy | [51][50] |
1962 | The Reivers | Random House | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963 | [51][23] |
1973 | Flags in the Dust | Random House | Original manuscript of what became Sartoris, prior to extensive editing | [52] |
Short stories
Year | Title | First published in | First collected in | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1919 | "Landing in Luck" | The Mississippian | Early Prose and Poetry | [54] | |
1922 | "The Hill" | The Mississippian | Early Prose and Poetry | [55] | |
1922 | "Nympholepsy" | The Mississippian | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1925 | "New Orleans" | The Double Dealer | New Orleans Sketches | The name "New Orleans Sketches" applies to several sketches published in the same issue of The Double Dealer. | [57] |
1925 | "Frankie and Johnny" | Mississippi Quarterly | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | One of the previous New Orleans Sketches; later rewritten as "The Kid Learns" | [54] |
1925 | "Chartres Street" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [58] | |
1925 | "Damon and Pythias Unlimited" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [58] | |
1925 | "Home" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [54] | |
1925 | "Jealousy" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [54] | |
1925 | "Cheest" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [58] | |
1925 | "Out of Nazareth" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [56] | |
1925 | "The Kingdom of God" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [54] | |
1925 | "The Rosary" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [59] | |
1925 | "The Cobbler" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [58] | |
1925 | "Chance" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [58] | |
1925 | "Sunset" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [59] | |
1925 | "The Kid Learns" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [54] | |
1925 | "Liar" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [54] | |
1925 | "Episode" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [54] | |
1925 | "Country Mice" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [58] | |
1925 | "Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum" | The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Sketches | [60] | |
1930 | "A Rose for Emily" | The Forum | These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[61] | |
1930 | "Honor" | The American Mercury | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[54] | |
1930 | "Thrift" | The Saturday Evening Post | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [61] | |
1930 | "Red Leaves" | The Saturday Evening Post | These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[62] | |
1931 | "Dry September" | Scribner's Magazine | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[63] | |
1931 | "That Evening Sun" | The American Mercury | These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[64] | |
1931 | "Ad Astra" | American Caravan | These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[65] | |
1931 | "Hair" | The American Mercury | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[54] | |
1931 | "Spotted Horses" | Scribner's Magazine | The Portable Faulkner Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet | [59] |
1931 | "The Hound" | Scribner's Magazine | Dr. Martino and Other Stories Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet | [66] |
1931 | "Fox Hunt" | Harper's Magazine | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[54] | |
1931 | "Victory" | — | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[60] | |
1931 | "All the Dead Pilots" | — | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[58] | |
1931 | "Crevasse" | — | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[67][58] | |
1931 | "A Justice" | — | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[68] | |
1931 | "Mistral" | — | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[69] | |
1931 | "Divorce in Naples" | — | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[58] | |
1931 | "Carcassonne" | — | These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[58] | |
1931 | "Dr. Martino" | — | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[70] | |
1931 | "Idyll in the Desert" | Random House | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Published in a limited edition run of 400 copies | [54] |
1932 | "Miss Zilphia Gant" | Book Club of Texas | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Published in a print run of 300 copies | [56] |
1932 | "Death Drag" | Scribner's Magazine | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[66] | |
1932 | "Centaur in Brass" | The American Mercury | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [58] | |
1932 | "Once Aboard the Lugger (I)" | Contempo | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1932 | "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" | The Saturday Evening Post | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet | [71] |
1932 | "Turn About" | The Saturday Evening Post | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[60] | |
1932 | "Smoke" | Harper's Magazine | Dr. Martino and Other Stories Knight's Gambit |
[59] | |
1932 | "Mountain Victory" | The Saturday Evening Post | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[72] | |
1933 | "There Was a Queen" | Scribner's Magazine | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[59] | |
1933 | "Artist at Home" | Story | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [58] | |
1933 | "Beyond" | The Saturday Evening Post | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[73] | |
1934 | "Elly" | Story | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[54] | |
1934 | "Pennsylvania Station" | The American Mercury | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1934 | "Wash" | Harper's Magazine | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[74] | |
1934 | "A Bear Hunt" | The Saturday Evening Post | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner Big Woods |
[54] | |
1934 | "The Leg" | — | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[54] | |
1934 | "Black Music" | — | Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner |
[58] | |
1934 | "Mule in the Yard" | Scribner's Magazine | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [75] | |
1934 | "Ambuscade" | The Saturday Evening Post | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished | [76] |
1934 | "Retreat" | The Saturday Evening Post | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1934 | "Lo!" | Story | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1934 | "Raid" | The Saturday Evening Post | The Portable Faulkner Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished | [59] |
1935 | "Skirmish at Sartoris" | Scribner's Magazine | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Originally titled "Drusilla", renamed when it was revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished | [59] |
1935 | "Golden Land" | The American Mercury | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [54] | |
1935 | "That Will Be Fine" | The American Mercury | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1935 | "Uncle Willy" | The American Mercury | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [60] | |
1935 | "Lion" | Harper's Magazine | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses | [54] |
1936 | "The Brooch" | Scribner's Magazine | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [58] | |
1936 | "Two Dollar Wife" | College Life | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [77] | |
1936 | "Fool About a Horse" | Scribner's Magazine | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet | [54] |
1936 | "The Unvanquished" | The Saturday Evening Post | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished as "Riposte in Tertio" | [59] |
1936 | "Vendee" | The Saturday Evening Post | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished | [60] |
1937 | "Monk" | Scribner's Magazine | Knight's Gambit | [56] | |
1939 | "Barn Burning" | Scribner's Magazine | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet | [58] |
1939 | "Hand Upon the Waters" | The Saturday Evening Post | Knight's Gambit | [54] | |
1940 | "A Point of Law" | Collier's | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses | [56] |
1940 | "The Old People" | Harper's Magazine | Big Woods Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses and included in Big Woods | [56] |
1940 | "Pantaloon in Black" | Harper's Magazine | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses | [54] |
1940 | "Gold Is Not Always" | Atlantic Monthly | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [54] | |
1940 | "Tomorrow" | The Saturday Evening Post | Knight's Gambit | [60] | |
1941 | "Go Down, Moses" | Collier's | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses | [54] |
1941 | "The Tall Men" | The Saturday Evening Post | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1942 | "Two Soldiers" | The Saturday Evening Post | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [60] | |
1942 | "Delta Autumn" | Story | The Portable Faulkner Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses | [58] |
1942 | "The Bear" | The Saturday Evening Post | The Portable Faulkner Big Woods Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses and included in both The Portable Faulkner and Big Woods | [78] |
1943 | "Afternoon of a Cow" | Fontaine | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet; originally published in French |
[65] |
1943 | "Shingles for the Lord" | The Saturday Evening Post | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1943 | "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" |
Story | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [79] | |
1943 | "Shall Not Perish" | Story | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1946 | "An Error in Chemistry" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine | Knight's Gambit | [54] | |
1948 | "A Courtship" | Sewanee Review | The Collected Stories of William Faulkner | [58] | |
1949 | "Knight's Gambit" | — | Knight's Gambit | A shorter version remains unpublished. | [54] |
1950 | "A Name for the City" | Harper's Magazine | — | Revised version used for Act I prologue of Requiem for a Nun | [80] |
1951 | "Notes on a Horsethief" | Levee Press | — | Also published in Vogue in 1954 and incorporated into A Fable (1954) | [81] |
1954 | "Mississippi" | Holiday | William Faulkner: Stories | [56] | |
1954 | "Sepulture South: Gaslight" | Harper's Bazaar | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1955 | "Race at Morning" | The Saturday Evening Post | Big Woods Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner |
Revised for inclusion in Big Woods | [59] |
1955 | "By the People" | Mademoiselle | — | Incorporated into chapter 13 of The Mansion | [82] |
1962 | "Hell Creek Crossing" | The Saturday Evening Post | — | 20 page excerpt from a draft of The Reivers | [83] |
1965 | "Mr. Acarius" | The Saturday Evening Post | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1967 | "The Wishing Tree" | Random House | — | Faulkner's only children's book, written in 1927 | [84] |
1971 | "Al Jackson" | William Faulkner und die humoristiche Tradition des amerikanischen Südens | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [65] | |
1973 | "And Now What's To Do" | Mississippi Quarterly | — | [58] | |
1976 | "Music – Sweeter than the Angels Sing" | Southern Review | — | [56] | |
1976 | "The Priest" | Mississippi Quarterly | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1976 | "Mayday" | University of Notre Dame Press | — | [56] | |
1979 | "Don Giovanni" | Mississippi Quarterly | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [54] | |
1979 | "Peter" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1979 | "A Portrait of Elmer" | The Georgia Review | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1979 | "Adolescence" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [58] | |
1979 | "Snow" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1979 | "Moonlight" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1979 | "With Caution and Dispatch" | Esquire | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [60] | |
1979 | "Hog Pawn" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Revised and incorporated into the novel The Mansion as the fourteenth chapter | [85] |
1979 | "A Dangerous Man" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [58] | |
1979 | "A Return" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [59] | |
1979 | "The Big Shot" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | An alternate version without the Popeye plot (titled "Dull Tale") was not published. | [86] |
1979 | "Once Aboard the Lugger (II)" | — | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | [56] | |
1979 | "Evangeline" | The Atlantic | Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner | Written around 1931 | [87] |
1988 | "Love" | The Missouri Review | — | Written around 1921 | [88] |
1995 | "Christmas Tree" | The Yale Review | — | Written around 1921 but rediscovered at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in 1970 | [89] |
1995 | "Rose of Lebanon" | The Oxford American | — | Written in 1930 but rejected by literary magazines, reworked into "A Return" in 1938 | [90] |
1999 | "Lucas Beauchamp" | Virginia Quarterly Review | — | 1948 excerpt of Intruder in the Dust reworked into short story. The extent of Faulkner's involvement is unclear. | [91] |
Theatre
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1921 | Marionettes | Unpublished one-act play, written at the University of Mississippi | [92] |
Screenplays
Produced
Year | Film | Credit type | Based on | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1933 | Today We Live | Dialogue and story | "Turn About" by William Faulkner | [95] |
1935 | Banjo on My Knee | Uncredited | Banjo on my Knee by Harry Hamilton | [96][97] |
1936 | The Road to Glory | Screenplay | — | [98] |
1936 | The Petrified Forest | Uncredited, screenplay | The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood | [99] |
1937 | Slave Ship | Story | The Last Slaver by George S. King | [100] |
1938 | Submarine Patrol | Uncredited, screenplay | Ray Milholland's The Splinter Fleet of Otranto Barrage, 20th Century-Fox | [101] |
1939 | Gunga Din | Uncredited, treatment and dialogue revision | "Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling | [102] |
1939 | Drums Along the Mohawk | Uncredited contributor | Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds | [103] |
1943 | Northern Pursuit | Screenplay | To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway | [104] |
1944 | To Have and Have Not | Screenplay | To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway | [105] |
1945 | The Southerner | Uncredited | Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry | [106] |
1945 | Mildred Pierce | Contract writer, uncredited | Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain | [107][108] |
1946 | The Big Sleep | Screenplay | The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler | [109][110] |
1947 | Stallion Road | Uncredited, screenplay | Stephen Longstreet's eponymous novel, for Warner Bros. | [111] |
1949 | Intruder in the Dust | Uncredited | Intruder in the Dust by Faulkner, suggestions and revisions may have been wholly rejected | [112] |
1953 | Shall not Perish | Television screenplay | To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, broadcast by CBS on Lux Video Theatre | [112] |
1955 | Land of the Pharaohs | Screenplay | — | [113] |
1955 | The Left Hand of God | Uncredited, screenplay | The Left Hand of God by William Edmund Barrett | [114] |
Unproduced
Year | Title | Type | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1932 | Night Bird | Story outline for unwritten screenplay | Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays, published in October 1982 by University of Tennessee Press. | [115] |
1932 | Manservant | Treatment for unwritten screenplay | Based on Faulkner's short story "Love". Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays. | [116] |
1932 | The College Widow | Treatment for unwritten screenplay | For MGM | [117] |
1932 | Absolution | Treatment for unwritten screenplay | For MGM, based on Faulkner's "All the Dead Pilots" | [117] |
1932 | Flying the Mail | Screenplay | Adapted from treatment by Ralph Graves and Bernard Fineman for MGM | [117] |
1933 | War Birds | Screenplay | For MGM, based on John McGavock Grider's War Birds as well as Faulkner's "All the Dead Pilots", "Ad Astra", and Sartoris | [118] |
1933 | "Mythical Latin-American Kingdom Story" | Screenplay | Written for MGM | [118] |
1933 | Louisiana Lou | Screenplay | Used for the 1934 film Lazy River without Faulkner's involvement. | [119] |
1936 | Wooden Crosses | Screenplay | For 20th Century-Fox | [120] |
1936 | Zero Hour | Screenplay | For 20th Century-Fox | [120] |
c. 1940s | Dreadful Hollow | Screenplay | Written for Howard Hawks | [114] |
Early 1940s | Untitled | Screenplay | Involves a love triangle and murder at a carnival in Belgrade, Serbia, written with Dudley Murphy for Warner Bros., loose adaptation of Faulkner's "Wash" and Absalom! Absalom! | [121] |
1941 | The Damned Don't Cry | Screenplay | Adaptation of Harry Hervey's 1939 novel of the same name | [122] |
1942 | The De Gaulle Story | Screenplay | [123] | |
1943 | Country Lawyer | Story treatment | Adaptation of Bellamy Partridge's novel, albeit with the setting moved to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, included in Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen, published in June 1987 by University Press of Mississippi. | [124] |
1943 | Battle Cry | Screenplay | Epic World War II film for which Warner Bros. denied director Howard Hawks funding, appears in Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry, published in December 1985 by University Press of Mississippi. | [125] |
1943 | Revolt in the Earth | Screenplay | Written with Dudley Murphy for Warner Bros., loose adaptation of Faulkner's "Wash" and Absalom! Absalom! | [105] |
1943 | The Life and Death of a Bomber | Screenplay | Patriotic film written to provide positive publicity for Consolidated Aircraft | [126] |
1946 | One Way to Catch a Horse | Treatment | [111] | |
1946 | Continuous Performance | Treatment | Collaborated with unknown person | [111] |
c. 1948 | Morningstar | Treatment | Concerns an interplanetary trip to Venus, discussed project with Howard Hawks | [127] |
1953 | Old Man | Television screenplay | Adaptation of the "Old Man" chapter in Wild Palms | [128] |
1956 | Untitled | Television screenplay | Concerns a conflicted man forced to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee | [129] |
— | Untitled | Screenplay notes | Largely illegible, concerns a woman who buys a love potion | [129] |
Poetry collections
Year | Title | Publisher | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1921 | Vision in Spring | University of Mississippi | Published in the 1920–1921 Ole Miss yearbook | [130] |
1924 | The Marble Faun | Four Seas | His first book published | [131] |
1933 | A Green Bough | Harrison Smith and Robert Haas | [132] | |
1962 | Early Prose and Poetry | Little, Brown and Company | Compiled and edited by Carvel Collins, most had previously appeared in the Ole Miss student newspaper | [132][133] |
1981 | Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems | Tulane University Press & Yoknapatawpha Press | Joint publication | [134] |
Essays
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1953 | "A Note On Sherwood Anderson" | [136] | |
1954 | "Mississippi" | [137] | |
1954 | "A Guest's Impression of New England" | [137] | |
1955 | "An Innocent at Rinkside" | [137] | |
1955 | "Kentucky: May: Saturday" | [137] | |
1955 | "On Privacy" | With "On Fear", was part of larger unrealized essay collection "The American Dream" | [138] |
1955 | "Impressions of Japan" | [137] | |
1955 | "To the Youth of Japan" | [137] | |
1956 | "Letter to a Northern Editor" | [137] | |
1956 | "On Fear: Deep South in Labor: Mississippi" | See "On Privacy" | [138] |
1956 | "A Letter to the Leaders in the Negro Race" | [137] | |
1961 | "Albert Camus" | [137] |
Book reviews
Year | Book reviewed | Author | Published in | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1931 | The Road Back | Erich Maria Remarque | The New Republic | [139][140] |
1935 | Test Pilot | Jimmy Collins | American Mercury | [139][140] |
1952 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Shenandoah | [140] |
Introductions
Year | Title | Ref. |
---|---|---|
1926 | Foreword to Sherwood Anderson & Other Famous Creoles | [139] |
1932 | Introduction to the Modern Library Edition of Sanctuary | [139] |
1954 | Foreword to The Faulkner Reader | [139] |
Public letters
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1927 | To the Book Editor of the Chicago Tribune | [139] | |
1938 | To the President of the League of American Writers | [139] | |
1941 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [139] | |
1946 | "His Name Was Pete" | In the Oxford Eagle | [139] |
1947 | To the Editor of the Oxford Eagle | [139] | |
1950 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] | |
1950 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] | |
1950 | To the Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Letters | [142] | |
1950 | To the Voters of Oxford | [142] | |
1950 | To the Editor of the Oxford Eagle | [142] | |
1950 | To the Editor of the Time | [142] | |
1951 | Statement to the Press on the Willie McGee Case | Published in the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] |
1954 | To the Editor of The New York Times | [142] | |
1955 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] | |
1955 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] | |
1955 | To the Editor of The New York Times | [142] | |
1955 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] | |
1955 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] | |
1955 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [142] | |
1955 | Press Dispatch on the Emmet Till Case | Provided to United Press International | [142][143] |
1956 | To the Editor of Life | [142] | |
1956 | To the Editor of the Reporter | [142] | |
1956 | To the Editor of Time | [144] | |
1956 | To the Editor of Time | [144] | |
1956 | To the Editor of The New York Times | [144] | |
1957 | To the Editor of Time | [144] | |
1957 | To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal | [144] | |
1957 | Notice | September 24, published in the Oxford Eagle | [144] |
1957 | Notice | Published in the Oxford Eagle | [144] |
1960 | To the Editor of The New York Times | [144] |
Speeches
"I decline to accept the end of man... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
1940 | Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr | Barr was a former slave and the "mammy" who had helped raise Faulkner. | [146][147] |
1950 | Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature | Although he won the Nobel Prize in 1949, Faulkner accepted the award alongside 1950 Laureate Bertrand Russell in a combined ceremony. | [146][148] |
1951 | To the Graduating Class, University High School | [146] | |
1951 | Upon Being Made an Officer of the Legion of Honor | [146] | |
1952 | To the Delta Council | [146] | |
1953 | To the Graduating Class, Pine Manor Junior College | [146] | |
1955 | Upon Receiving the National Book Award for Fiction | [146] | |
1955 | To the Southern Historical Association | [146] | |
1957 | Upon Receiving the Silver Medal of the Athens Academy | [146] | |
1957 | To the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Presenting the Gold Medal for Fiction to John Dos Passos | [146] | |
1958 | To the Raven, Jefferson, and ODK Societies of the University of Virginia | [146] | |
1958 | To the English Club of the University of Virginia | [146] | |
1959 | To the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO | [146] | |
1962 | To the American Academy of Arts and Letters upon Receiving the Gold Medal for Fiction | [146] |
References
Citations
- ^ The New York Times (1962).
- ^ Aiken (1977), pp. 1–3.
- ^ Watson (2019), pp. 1–2, 20.
- ^ Levinger 2000.
- ^ "William Faulkner Facts".
- ^ "Nobel Prize in Literature 1949".
- ^ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 461.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 140–141.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 59–60, 81, 88, 90–91.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 102–104.
- ^ Franklin (1967), p. 57.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 105–106.
- ^ Churchwell (2012).
- ^ Minter (1980), p. 228.
- ^ Franklin (1967), pp. 57, 63–65.
- ^ Kerr (1962), pp. 5–6.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 107–109.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 127–128.
- ^ Minter (1980), p. 228.
- ^ Morgan (2012).
- ^ Kirsch (2014).
- ^ Blotner (1969).
- ^ a b Bracker (1963).
- ^ Kawin (1977), pp. 1–2.
- ^ Hogue (1981), pp. 51–52.
- ^ Kawin (1977), pp. 2–3.
- ^ a b c d e Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 483.
- ^ Minter (1980), p. 65.
- ^ Meriwether (1977), p. 419.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 94–95, 208–209.
- ^ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 468.
- ^ Blotner (1974), p. 1 of Notes, Vol. 1.
- ^ Minter (1980), p. 146.
- ^ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 470.
- ^ Ragan (1986), pp. 338–339.
- ^ a b c Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 471.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 145–146.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 171.
- ^ Jewkes (1961), pp. 39–40, 42–44.
- ^ Renner (1982), pp. 61–62.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 186, 188.
- ^ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 472.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 212.
- ^ Meriwether (1977), p. 423.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 221–222.
- ^ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 474.
- ^ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 475.
- ^ Blotner (1969).
- ^ Meriwether (1977), pp. 425–426.
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- ^ a b Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 478.
- ^ Meriwether (1977), pp. 427.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 127–128, 140–141.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Skei (1985), p. 140.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 18, 140.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Skei (1985), p. 141.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 21.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Skei (1985), p. 139.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Skei (1985), p. 142.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Skei (1985), p. 143.
- ^ a b Skei (1985), pp. 68, 142.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 64.
- ^ Blotner (1974), p. 654.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 65.
- ^ a b c Skei (1985), p. 138.
- ^ a b Skei (1985), p. 68.
- ^ Ferguson (1991), p. 150.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 68, 140.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 40, 141.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 69.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 72.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 65.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 62.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 81.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 82.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 84.
- ^ Skei (1985), p. 28.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 97, 131, 139.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 101, 141.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 106, 141.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 103, 141.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 107, 139.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 108, 140.
- ^ Meriwether (1977), pp. 426–427.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 108, 140.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 123, 139–140.
- ^ Skei (1985), pp. 69, 140.
- ^ Faulkner (1988).
- ^ The New York Times (1995).
- ^ Meindl (1997), pp. 583–584.
- ^ Faulkner & Samway (1999), pp. 417–418.
- ^ Polk (1973), p. 247.
- ^ Hogue (1981), p. 51.
- ^ Phillips (1980), p. 50.
- ^ Hayhoe (1978), pp. 410–411.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 927–933.
- ^ Sherman (1936).
- ^ Kawin (1977), p. 168.
- ^ Kawin (1977), p. 176.
- ^ Hayhoe (1978), pp. 413–414.
- ^ Hayhoe (1978), pp. 414–415.
- ^ Kawin (1977), p. 169.
- ^ Kawin (1977), pp. 171–172.
- ^ Kawin (1977), p. 173.
- ^ a b Hayhoe (1978), p. 415.
- ^ Kawin (1977), pp. 176–177.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 1172–1175.
- ^ Welsh (1983), p. 66.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 1171, 1175–1176.
- ^ Dougherty (2009), p. 64.
- ^ a b c Hayhoe (1978), p. 416.
- ^ a b Hayhoe (1978), p. 417.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 1537–1538.
- ^ a b Kawin (1977), p. 179.
- ^ Faulkner (1982), pp. ix, 1, 29.
- ^ Faulkner (1982), pp. xiv, xxv, 1.
- ^ a b c Hayhoe (1978), p. 410.
- ^ a b Hayhoe (1978), p. 411.
- ^ Faulkner (1982), pp. ix, 545.
- ^ a b Hayhoe (1978), p. 412.
- ^ Hayhoe (1978), pp. 418–419.
- ^ Faulkner (1987), p. 9.
- ^ Hamblin (2001), pp. 79–86.
- ^ Faulkner (1987), p. 7.
- ^ Ponder (1983), pp. 96–98.
- ^ Faulkner (1987), pp. 8-9.
- ^ Hayhoe (1978), pp. 416–417.
- ^ Hayhoe (1978), pp. 417–418.
- ^ a b Hayhoe (1978), p. 419.
- ^ Blotner (1974), p. 312.
- ^ Minter (1980), pp. 44, 257.
- ^ a b Tuck (1964), p. 247.
- ^ Volpe (1964), p. 414.
- ^ Ragan (1982), p. 337.
- ^ Dugdale (2009).
- ^ Faulkner (1953).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Faulkner (1965), p. xi.
- ^ a b Faulkner (1965), p. vii.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Faulkner (1965), p. xiii.
- ^ a b c Bradford (1965), p. 158.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 1570–1571.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Faulkner (1965), p. xiv.
- ^ Blotner (1974), p. 1570.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Faulkner (1965), p. xv.
- ^ Faulkner (1950).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Faulkner (1965), p. xii.
- ^ Welling (2001), p. 536.
- ^ Blotner (1974), pp. 1358–1364.
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- Aiken, Charles S. (1977). "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: Geographical Fact into Fiction". Geographical Review. 67 (1). American Geographical Society of New York: 1–21. JSTOR 213600.
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- Dougherty, David C. (2009). "Mr. Elkin and the Movies". New England Review. 30 (2). Middlebury College Publications: 64–73. JSTOR 40245223.
- Faulkner, William (1988). "Love". The Missouri Review. 11 (2): 123–148.
- Faulkner, William; Samway, Patrick (1999). "Lucas Beauchamp: An Unpublished Story". Virginia Quarterly Review. 75 (3): 417–420. JSTOR 26438463.
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- Meindl, Dieter (1997). ""Rose of Lebanon" and the Faulkner Canon". Amerikastudien/American Studies. 42 (4): 583–590. JSTOR 41157333.
- Meriwether, James B. (1977). "The Books Of William Faulkner: A Guide For Students And Scholars". The Mississippi Quarterly. 30 (3). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 417–428. JSTOR 26474343.
- Polk, Noel (1973). "William Faulkner's "Marionettes"". The Mississippi Quarterly. 26 (3). The Mississippi Quarterly: 247–280. JSTOR 26474043.
- Ponder, Anne (1983). "Review: Faulkner's Screenplays: 'The DeGaulle Story' and 'Battle Cry'". The Southern Literary Journal. 19 (1). University of North Carolina Press: 96–99.
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- Ragan, David Paul (1986). ""That Tragedy is Second-Hand": Quentin, Henry, and the Ending of "Absalom, Absalom!"". The Mississippi Quarterly. 39 (3): 337–350. JSTOR 26474975.
- Renner, Charlotte (1982). "Talking and Writing in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy". The Southern Literary Journal. 15 (1): 61–73. JSTOR 20077689.
- Watson, Jay (2019). "So Easy Even a Child Can Do It". The Mississippi Quarterly. 72 (1): 1–23. JSTOR 27279291.
- Welling, Bart H. (2001). "In Praise of the Black Mother: An Unpublished Faulkner Letter on "Mammy" Caroline Barr". The Georgia Review. 55 (3): 536–542. JSTOR 41380685.
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