Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came prepared to be busy. In that we have succeeded. We take courses. Our husband gets a yen for Faulkner; we read Faulkner. He starts Becoming a Writer. We type his manuscript. He takes up handball. We bandage his skinned knees...
...best literary work of 1950, the U.S. book industry gave the second annual National Book Awards to William Faulkner for his Collected Stories; New-Ion Arvin for his biography, Herman Melville; and Poet Wallace Stevens for The Auroras of Autumn...
Next Thursday "Faulkner: The Vision of Human Integrity" will be discussed by Alfred Kazin. In the final talk, on Thursday, February 22, Professor Lionel Trilling of Columbia will analyze "William Dean Howells and the Roots of Taste...
...withering, the Fitzgerald legend is livelier today than at any time since its hero's death. Unlike many literary "revivals," the interest in his books is real, not the byproduct of a publisher's promotion. At literary shindigs nowadays the Fitzgerald worshipers generally outnumber the Hemingway and Faulkner fans. Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted, largely a fictional pry into Fitzgerald's private life, has sold more than 250,000 copies...
...cheer for having tried, at least, to write about his Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...