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...FAULKNER: A BIOGRAPHY by JOSEPH BLOTNER 2,115 pages. 2 vols. Random House...
Back in 1930, when he was virtually unknown, William Faulkner was informed by his agent that The American Mercury wanted a biographical snippet to preface one of his stories. "Don't tell the bastards anything," wrote Faulkner. "It can't matter to them." In 1958, when Saxe Commins, his longtime editor at Random House, died, Faulkner grieved: "I'll have to hunt up somebody else now who will stop anybody making the William Faulkner story the moment I have breathed my last...
...Faulkner said that man will not only endure but prevail...
...Faulkner is one of the wiliest practitioners of Irish politics, and a fairly recent convert to the moderates. As Prime Minister in 1971, he took a tough line against the Irish Republican Army, which resulted in harsh crackdowns on the Catholic community and the ruthless policy of interning suspected terrorists. Those tactics led to a complete breakdown in security and the assumption of direct rule by Britain. Last spring, however, Faulkner campaigned for a new constitution calling for power-sharing between the majority Protestants and minority Catholics. The measure passed, and led to the formation of an eleven-man coalition...
Since then both Protestant and Catholic extremists have vowed to wreck the new government. Faulkner seemed well prepared for the showdown. When he moved out of party headquarters last week, he took with him photographed copies of all documents, $16,000 in political funds raised earlier under his own name, and half the staff. "We are leaving behind a pretty bankrupt lot," said an aide. "All they will have left is the building and the furniture." Technically Faulkner retains his Unionist membership, but 17 Unionist members of the Assembly have remained loyal to him, and he could form...