The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944-1962

by Malcolm Cowley

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Genres: Writing

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Malcolm Cowley was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist. Cowley is also recognized as one of the major literary historians of the twentieth century, and his Exile's Return, is one of the most definitive and widely read chronicles of the 1920s.

Cowley was one of the dozens of creative literary and artistic figures who migrated during the 1920s to Paris and congregated in Montparnasse. He lived in France for three years, where he worked with notables such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings and others. He is usually regarded as representative of America's Lost Generation.

As a consulting editor for Viking Press, Cowley notably championed the work and advanced the careers of the post-World War I writers who sundered tradition and fostered a new era in American literature. He was the one who rescued writers such as William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald from possible early oblivion and who discovered John Cheever and goaded him to write. Later Cowley championed such uncommon writers as Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey

His extraordinarily creative and prolific writing career spanned nearly 70 years, and he continued to produce essays, reviews and books well into his 80's.

Reviews

[Trin · Rating 4 out of 5]

God, Cowley had the patience of a saint. He obviously also had a real passion for Faulkner: the work and the man. Having read this, I still...do not relate to that, but I absolutely loved hearing about Cowley's editing process for putting together The Portable Faulkner. A fascinating (semi?)-lost (?) book for Faulkner scholars or anyone interested in the midcentury literary scene and the art of editing.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

YES YES YES
the best book about writing i've read. first read it while working ata bookstore. taught me to love faulkner as a writer and care for him as a man.

[Jstoryhead · Rating 4 out of 5]

Faulkner is brilliant even in his letters, and this correspondence gives us some truly great moments. It's also just a great story: a critic who rescued from obscurity the greatest writer this country has ever seen. One of those books you feel lucky to stumble across.


"I think (at 46) I have worked too hard at my (elected or doomed, I dont know which) trade, with pride but I believe not vanity, with plenty of ego but with humility too (being a poet, of course I give no fart for glory) to leave no better mark on this pointless chronicle than I seem to be about to leave."

[Jim Gulley · Rating 4 out of 5]

For Faulkner scholars, this is an excellent resource for understanding Faulkner and his work. Cowley was the editor who put together "The Portable Faulkner," which revitalized Faulkner's career and esteem at a critical time. This is a collection of Cowley's correspondences with Faulkner and a memoir of their interactions during this period.

[Lee Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terrific.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always enjoy books about writers and writing. Then you add Faulkner, you know you have a hit.