![]() ![]() ![]() Use standard reference tools like The MLA International Bibliography and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. ![]() Much of the most important recent research on William Faulkner will be found in critical journals. Your best bet is to read biographies published after Blotner's ground-breaking work. Please note that your library has many other biographies of William Faulkner. If you can only read one, I recommend the Parini biography. Still others are more interested in the life in relationship to other authors: Hemingway, Anderson, Borges, etc. Other biographies deal only with parts of the life or interpret the life as part of a larger context (Southern authors, for example, or modernist writers). From the Blotner biography (which includes every bit of life data available), to the Parini biography (eloquently written and more interested in discussing the books), to the Oates biography that is more interested in tellng the story of the life, we see varied approaches to the whole discipline of full biography. If you look at more than one, you'll start to get an idea of the scope of the field of biographies in general. ![]() This list is restricted to the best, most important biographies appearing in the Louis J. There have been many biographies of William Faulkner and most are quite excellent. ![]()
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