Don't Know Much About Faulkner

Yesterday Fitzgerald. Today Faulkner. This American master was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

History haunts the present in William Faulkner's novels, as this famous line from Requiem for a Nun (1951) suggests. Faulkner's great novels focus on the decline of the southern aristocracy in and around the fictional town of Jefferson. He invented old Mississippi families like the Compsons, the Bundrens, the Sutpens, and the...