
My Brother Bill
John Faulkner(Author)
University of South Carolina Press
Published on 20. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-57003-933-1 (ISBN)
Description
Perhaps no one knew the intensely private William Faulkner better than his brother John. At the time of Bill's funeral, a reporter remarked that seeing John walking the streets of Oxford, Mississippi, was like encountering the ghost of his brother. Indeed John and Bill were mirrors of one another in many ways. In this memoir we find an intimate and at times humorous portrait of the Faulkner brothers from childhood through adulthood. John provides a keen view of the local characters and situations that Bill later used in his novels, including such classics as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom!
My Brother Bill was first published in 1963, the year following William Faulkner's death. This edition includes seventeen photographs and a foreword by Jimmy Faulkner, son of the author and nephew of the subject.
My Brother Bill was first published in 1963, the year following William Faulkner's death. This edition includes seventeen photographs and a foreword by Jimmy Faulkner, son of the author and nephew of the subject.
Reviews / Votes
For anyone interested in William Faulkner and his writings (and everyone should be), this memoir of him by his younger brother is essential reading.New York Times Book Review|Rooted so deep in the soil from which the Faulkner clan sprang that it is worth tomes of Faulkner criticism.
Atlantic Monthly|This affectionate memoir brings us to understand why Faulkner became the literary artist he did.
Christian Science Monitor|Splendidly evokes the flavor of boyhood in a small southern town.
Time|Sentimental, warm, and honest.
Saturday Review
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-933-1 (9781570039331)
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Persons
John Wesley Thompson Faulkner III (1901-1963) was a lifetime resident of Mississippi and grew up in Oxford with his three brothers, William, Murry, and Dean. John was an aviator, a civil engineer, a self-taught painter, and a widely published author. Intensely interested in the South and loyal to a literary family steeped in tradition, he is best known for Dollar Cotton and three other novels, as well as his memoir, My Brother Bill.