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 ...

THE TOV/N (371 pp.)—William Faulkner—Random House ($3.95). In his first novel in three years William Faulkner displays the vision of a Hieronymus Bosch rendered in the style of Grandma Moses. The ...

Of these forty-two stories, seventeen have not been published in any of Faulkner’s books, and a number of the others come from books now out of print. Here is a microcosm of the haunting world that ...

Hear the name William Faulkner and you think of his work. Short stories like “Barn Burning” or long ones like “The Bear,” such novels as The Sound and the Fury or Absalom, Absalom! The tangled prose, ...

PYLON—William Faulkner—Smith & Haas ($2.50). William Faulkner’s latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit ...

The Nobel Committee has said the prize cannot be transferred, but it has been sold in a few auctions over the award’s history. By Pranav Baskar By championing now-essential writers like William ...