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© 2020 by Carl Rollyson

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First published 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund), author.

Title: The life of William Faulkner / Carl Rollyson.

Description: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: Volume 1. The past is never dead, 1897–1934. | Volume 2. This alarming paradox, 1935–1962.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019032254 (print) | LCCN 2019032255 (ebook) | ISBN 9780813943824 (hardback ; volume 1) | ISBN 9780813943831 (epub ; volume 1) | ISBN 9780813944401 (hardback ; volume 2) | ISBN 9780813944418 (epub ; volume 2)

Subjects: LCSH: Faulkner, William, 1897–1962. | Authors, American—20th century—Biography. | Novelists, American—20th century—Biography.

Classification: LCC PS3511.A86 Z9619 2020 (print) | LCC PS3511.A86 (ebook) | DDC 813/.52 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032254

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032255

Cover art: Faulkner in 1943, on the terrace of his office on the Warner lot in Hollywood, working on the screenplay for To Have and Have Not, released in 1945. (Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)