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...Advocate tomorrow will publish a comprehensive study of author William Faulkner, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature...
...months in preparation, the 44-page issue will present 12 commentaries on Faulkner, plus the text of a speech by the author himself. In 1940, the magazine presented a similar issue devoted to the modern American poet, Wallace Stevens...
Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner. The Nobel Prizewinner returns to the characters of Sanctuary (1931), reports them older, sadder, a little wiser, with an outside chance of saving their souls (TIME, Sept...
Author William Faulkner, winner of the 1949 Nobel prize for literature, was summoned to New Orleans, where the French Consul General presented him with the Order of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
...Dostoevsky? How much fuss will posterity make about Graham Greene? Will it rate him as high as Hemingway or Faulkner? Will he outlast Evelyn Waugh? Will he be mentioned in the same breath as Dostoevsky? Only posterity can answer. But with these three contemporaries, at any rate, Greene can hold up his head. He is as accomplished a craftsman as they, and without the mannerisms with which the two Americans have begun to burlesque their own styles. He has neither the snigger nor the snobbery that are Waugh's trademarks. But when Greene is compared with Dostoevsky, the great...