Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier in the week Coach Harvey Love rearranged his line-up, moving Geoffrey Locke, who had been at six, to stroke in place of Fritz Schwartz, bringing Charley Faulkner up from the jayvees to four for Charley Atkinson, who shifted to six, and finally inserting Henry Hammond into two for Art Hodges...
After clinging for so long to the solitude of his work and his Mississippi home, Novelist William (A Fable, The Sound and the Fury) Faulkner of late has been tasting-and enjoying-the pleasures of loquacity. In what might be called his transformation from hermitage to Hermitage (of a good year, of course), Faulkner has been reluctant to talk about the one subject he is most qualified to discuss-the art of writing. But for the new issue of the English-language quarterly, the Paris Review, Novelist Faulkner relented sufficiently to deliver some explicit comments on his trade...
...Said Faulkner last week when asked whether he meant this literally: "I am a fiction writer and I am not responsible for any construction made on any interview I have ever given...
...William Faulkner has called Henry James "one of the nicest old ladies I ever knew." But allowing for all that was overly fastidious, snobbish and unworldly about him, the James who emerges from the autobiography looks much more like a staunch culture hero. More than any other 19th century U.S. literary figure, with the possible exception of Poe, he pioneered the idea that the art of fiction was not peripheral and frivolous, but central and serious. Master of an elegantly involuted style which Critic Cyril Connolly has dubbed the "Mandarin," James sometimes carried it to the point of "euphonious nothings...
Born. To Jill Faulkner Summers, 22, only child of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner, and Paul Dilwyn Summers Jr., 27, University of Virginia law student: their first child, a son; in Charlottesville. Va. Name: Paul Dilwyn III. Weight...