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Author and Smith College English Professor Michael Gorra discussed his book, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War. The book examines how the legacies of the Civil War and the South’s…

The panel talked about the works of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning Southern writer William Faulkner. They focused on his first successful novel, The Sound and the Fury published in 1929. Topics…

Author Carlyle Van Thompson talked about his book The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination, published by Peter Lang Publishing. He explored the ways African-American…

From Rowan Oak, William Faulkner’s home, the guests talked about his life and his writings, focusing on the Yoknapatawpha County novels. A C-SPAN crew toured grounds and a few rooms inside the home.…

Mr. Foote talked about the writings of William Faulkner and his view of the South.