William Faulkner and Southern History

2589 William Faulkner and Southern History, by Jack Williamson (read 9 Mar 1994) This is a 1993 book by a University of North Carolina professor and is a really great book. The first 140 pages deal with Faulkner's ancestry and are extremely interesting, appealing mightily to the genealogist in me. Faulkner's great-grandfather, William C. Falkner (1824-1889) is a larger than life figure, and I would like to go to the cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi, and see his statue there. This whole section of the book is sheerly fascinating. The nest 214 pages are a biography and are well done. Faulkner was an alcoholic, and one gets irritated over his never failing drunkenness, despite "cure" after "cure." The third section of he book is 80 pages, show more and is boring. It assumes more memory than I have as to his work .I read twelve books by Faulkner, but ten of them were read in the 1950's. show less