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...relations between the races in the U.S., the editors of TIME decided they should present a deeper analysis of the traditions, emotions and psychological factors that lie at the roots of the problem and the progress. As the subject for that study, they chose the late great novelist William Faulkner, whose perceptive view from within the U.S. South illumined the crisis of conscience in race relations long before it worked its way out of the shadows...
...This is Faulkner's second appearance on TIME'S cover. The first (Jan. 23, 1939) preceded his Nobel Prize by eleven years and was based on TIME'S judgment that he was the "central figure" in Southern literary life. Reaching back to that point and beyond, the raw material for this week's Faulkner story was considerably different from that for most cover stories. Although Senior Editor A. T. Baker, Writer Horace Judson and Researcher Martha McDowell had at hand some 70 pages of current reporting from TIME correspondents covering the civil rights front...
...Berlin), reading teacher, book manuscript editor, advertising copywriter and account executive, Judson is now a mainstay of TIME'S BOOKS staff. As might be expected, he reads faster than most people, but he considers himself slow as a writer, spent some 70 hours at the typewriter on the Faulkner story...
...cover portrait, Artist Robert Vickrey did his pen-and-ink drawing from photographs taken not long before Faulkner's death...
...knew was William Faulkner. He was born there, in Mississippi, heir to and prisoner of the crinoline-and-lace tradition; he died there in 1962. In writing 19 novels and 80 short stories, almost all about the South, he won through to an understanding that in its richness, scope and completeness, tragic vision and comic invention, will not soon be equaled. At his best he penetrated the magnolia curtain of Southern illusions to the secret springs of motive and action. He said, in effect, "This is the way it feels to be Southern"-something the North needs to know...