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...through the writing of his third novel, Sartor is, he had a vision: "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. I created a cosmos of my own." He called it Yoknapatawpha County and set it down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner, sole owner...
...writings to a new prominence (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951). But Fitzgerald is now a contested figure, suspended between Mizener and Andrew Turnbull, author of the recent biographical bestseller (TIME, March 30). Several critics are even now trying to assert squatters' rights in the late William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, but what will become of their rivalry nobody is likely to know for years. Hemingway had no one dominant fan in life. After his death, a stampede of scholars for the right to use his private papers might have been expected. But the great plum was swiftly awarded...
People as Pets. Born 60 years ago in northern California's lush, lettuce-growing Salinas valley, Steinbeck turned the area into a kind of strip-cartoon Yoknapatawpha County, where even the local Snopeses are kind to small animals. At times, the Salinas corn has been as high, if not as dry, as William Saroyan's young eye; at others, the view from Steinbeck's wayward literary bus has resembled Henry Miller's sex-sodden Tropics, minus the belly laughs...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. A last, sunny romp through the usually tragic-dark acres of Yoknapatawpha County...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. A last sunny romp through the usually tragic-dark acres of Yoknapatawpha County...