William Faulkner told all sorts of tall tales about his life and work. During World War I he enlisted in the Royal Air Force in Toronto (having given his birthplace as Middlesex, England). He returned ...

Far from being a prudish institution, the New York Public Library houses one of the world’s great collections of erotica, ranging from magazines like Transvestia to the manuscript for Henry Miller’s ...

William Faulkner is widely considered one of the greatest 20th-century writers, but his prose, with its run-on sentences and oddly placed punctuation marks, isn’t exactly easy to grasp or to follow.

Reporting from Oxford, Miss. — “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner wrote in 1951, two years after winning the Nobel Prize for literature. It’s one of his best-known lines, ...

For all the ways it is rife with tenderness, fury and ugliness, William Faulkner’s fiction is stubbornly persistent in its artistry. One morning in the late spring of 1962, William Faulkner rode his ...

We hadn't planned to visit William Faulkner's home on our visit to Mississippi. We didn't think we had enough time. But really, the temptation was too great: It seemed sacrilegious to leave Oxford ...

Reporting from Oxford, Miss. — “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner wrote in 1951, two years after winning the Nobel Prize for literature. It’s one of his best-known lines, ...