William Faulkner, American Writer Nice site with lots of background on Faulkner characters and geography.
Perspectives in American Literature Faulkner site Another site with plenty of information and links.
William (Cuthbert) Faulkner (1897-1962) A solid brief biography.
Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha Lengthy excerpt from a book by Don H. Doyle.
Some
key points to consider in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses Detailed notes
on the book by a Dr. Schaefer at Holy Cross.
| "[I] discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it, and that by sublimating the actual into the apocryphal I would have complete liberty to use whatever talent I might have to its absolute top. It opened up a gold mine of other people, so I created a cosmos of my own." - WF |
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A map of the Delta area of Mississippi/Arkansas/Tennessee:
Another, showing towns and states more clearly:
And a topographical map of the Yazoo Basin:
