CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Progenitor: The First William Falkner
2. Poplars and Peacocks, Nymphs and Fauns
3. Fierce, Small, and Impregnably Virginal
4. Discovering Yoknapatawpha
5. All Things Become Shadowy Paradoxical
6. Into the Void
7. The Making of a Modernist Identity:
Light in August8. The Dark House of Southern History
9. Ruthless and Unbearable Honesty
10. Diminished Powers: The Writing of
Go Down, MosesCoda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Statue of Colonel William C. Falkner in Ripley, Mississippi
Estelle Oldham as an adolescent in 1913
William Faulkner as "Count No-Count" in the early 1920s
William Faulkner the emerging novelist in New Orleans in the mid-1920s
The county courthouse and monument of the Confederate soldier in Oxford, Mississippi
William Faulkner the Modernist author at work in his study
William Faulkner the gentleman bohemian in the mid-1930s
William Faulkner the Virginia squire in his riding attire during the late 1950s
