Falkner, Fannie Forrest, 125–6
Falkner, Lena, 126
Falkner, J. W. T., 41–2, 47, 74, 76, 171–2, 188
Falkner, (Uncle) John, 80, 189
Falkner, Maud Butler, 37–44, 47, 59, 70, 79, 104, 106, 111–2, 128, 130, 172, 240n.2
Falkner, Murry, 38–44, 76, 121–2, 171, 188, 241n.3
Falkner, Dean, 7, 106–7, 111–2
and flight, 106–7, 111–2
Falkner, John (Johncy), 37, 44, 45, 92, 121, 157
Falkner, Louise Hale (wife of Dean), 107, 111–2
Falkner, Murry (Jack), 37, 44, 45, 46, 73, 129, 188
Falkner, Dean (daughter of Dean and Louise), 229–30
Falkners of Mississippi, The (Murry [Jack] Falkner), 37, 46, 73, 129
Faulkner, Estelle Oldham Franklin, 6, 9, 15–19, 21, 29, 47, 66–8, 70, 73, 78–81, 83–7, 104–5, 112–3, 166, 170–1, 175–6, 179–83, 185, 189–90, 203, 209, 229–30, 217, 219, 240–1n.1–2, 242n.1
divorce of (from Franklin), 6, 9, 15–7, 66, 81
failed elopement of (with Faulkner), 15, 66–8, 70, 112
marriage of (with Faulkner), 9, 17–9, 83–7, 170–1, 179–83, 203, 219, 229–30, 240–1nn.1–2, 241–2n.1
Faulkner in the University, 11, 17, 22, 46, 94, 225
Faulkner, William, and alcohol, 115, 168–79, 234
“becoming” of, 1–5, 214–5
See also time, unpreparedness
childhood of, 36–48
and Conference of Southern Writers (1931), 85–7
early poetry of, 21–24, 77–8
early prose of, 24–6
and endurance, 235–6
as experimental novelist, 48, 50–9, 64–5, 94–5, 99–103
and flight, 6–7, 103–12
and Greenfield Farm, 156–7
and guilt, 111–2, 114
“hemophilic” imagination of, 213–5
and Hollywood, 8, 113, 179–90
honeymoon of, 18–9
and hospitalization, 174, 218
and humor, 231–2
and hunting, 11, 173–4
later fiction of, 221–7
and love affairs, 113–4, 179–85, 218–21
and Meta Carpenter, 179–85
and money, 109, 112–3, 156–8, 166
and need of “sanctuary,” 169, 171–3, 210–5, 233–4
and New Orleans, 24
and Nobel Prize, 45, 134, 217, 231
and photographs, 71–2, 181
and the Post Office, 79–80
and psychoanalysis, 218
and race, 9, 114
as ancestral inheritance, 123–7
as articulated for Life Magazine, 117
as civil rights turmoil, 115–9, 217
as segregation, 120–4
as stereotype, 128
and refusal to judge, 213, 234
and role-playing, 6, 15–6, 71–80
and State Department, 131, 132, 170, 217
and spelling of name, 73–6
as traditionalist, 7, 83–4, 177–8
and unpreparedness, 66–8, 111–2, 210–5
See also unpreparedness
and writing, 233–7
and World War 1, 6, 15, 70–3, 134
Faulkner-Cowley File, The (Cowley), 3–4, 44, 176, 227, 233
Faulkner: A Biography (Blotner, 1 vol), 12–4, 37, 41, 60, 61, 67, 72, 74, 77–80, 86–7, 104–7, 111–3, 115, 119, 130–2, 157, 167, 169, 175, 183, 187–8, 216–7, 219, 225–6, 229–33
Faulkner: A Biography (Blotner, 2 vols), 38, 68, 71, 120, 241n.5
Faulkner: The House Divided (Sundquist), 245n.8
Faulkner and Love (Sensibar), 240–1nn.1–3, 241–2n.1, 243n.2, 245n.8, 245n.4
“Faulknerese,” 221–5
Flags in the Dust, 9, 11, 18, 31–6, 42, 57, 73, 76, 81, 92, 111, 134, 193, 224
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 126
Franklin, Cornell, 6, 15, 16, 19, 66–8, 112
Franklin, Malcolm, 15, 113, 229
Franklin, Victoria, 15, 113, 229
Freud, Sigmund, 218
Glissant, Edouard, 235
Godden, Richard, 245n.8
Great Illusion, The (Asbury), 235n.2
Green Bough, A, 22
Green, Paul, 85, 86
Griffith, D. W. (The Birth of a Nation), 46
Go Down, Moses, 76, 114, 124, 127, 137, 155–66 172–3, 178, 185, 221, 225
ancestral shadows in, 162–3
deferred revelation in, 162
and love, 162–5
miscegenation in, 158–9, 161–2, 164–5
racial representation of Lucas and Rider in, 159–61
and Reconstruction, 163–4
as “stories about niggers,” 158
Go Down Moses: The Miscegenation of Time (Kinney), 244n.7
Hale, Grace, 130, 243–4nn.4, 6
Haas, Robert (Bob), 158, 169, 170, 178, 231, 245n.5
The Hamlet, 9, 36, 107, 110, 178, 189, 198–210, 225, 231, 236
financial transactions in, 198–9
Mink’s ordeal in, 206–8
Ratliff’s role in, 199–200
“sanctuary” in, 208–10
sexual madness in, 200–6, 208–9
Snopesism in, 198–9
Hawks, Howard, 179, 187
Helen, 21
Hemphill, Dave, 175
Hernandez, Juano, 166–7
Hemingway, Ernest, 14, 233
Herndon, William, 232–3
Hindman, Robert, 74
Homemade World, A (Kenner), 245n.7
Housman, A. E. (A Shropshire Lad), 22, 32
Howe, Russell, 115
Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of (Twain), 227
Hughes, Richard, 14
Huxley, Aldous, 30
Idiot, The (Dostoevsky), 56
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (The Wild Palms), 9, 185, 190–8, 200, 203, 225
and As I Lay Dying, 197
bleeding in, 191–4
love as suffering in, 195–7
orgasm in, 192–4, 197–8
Intruder in the Dust, 10, 166–7, 178, 221, 236
Jackson, Robert, 130, 243–4nn.4, 6
Jefferson, Thomas (“Declaration of Independence”), 117
Jonsson, Else, 3, 132
Joyce, James, 60, 224–5, 241n.5
Keats, John (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”), 17, 18
Kennedy, John, 232
Kenner, Hugh, 245n.7
Kierkegaard, Soren, 91, 101, 243n.8
King, Martin Luther, 120, 127, 165
Kinney, Arthur, 244n.7
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 180
Lawrence, D. H., 180
Light in August, 9, 23, 97–103, 107, 114, 124, 137–44 157, 165, 169, 192–3, 211, 225
Calvinism in, 100–1
cognition and recognition in, 101–3
narrative experiment in, 99–103
and “nigger,” 139–40
racial identity as unknowable in, 137–44
and racist culture, 141–4
sequencing in, 98–100, 137
threat of miscegenation in, 155–6
unpreparedness in, 99–101
Lincoln, Abraham (“Emancipation Proclamation”), 117
Lion in the Garden, 17, 23, 52, 81, 115–7, 178, 239–40n.3, 242n.6
Liveright, Horace (Boni & Liveright), 11–4, 17–18, 31–3, 42
“Lost Generation, The,” 14
Loving Gentleman, A (Wilde and Borsten), 171, 179–85
Lucy, Autherine, 117, 118
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 206
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 77
Mansion, The, 107, 178, 189, 201, 226–7, 232
Marble Faun, The, 13, 22–3, 25, 60, 76, 89, 96, 230
Marx, Sam, 113, 185–6
Memphis, 120
“Mississippi,” 133
miscegenation, in Faulkner’s work, 8, 154–6, 244–5n.8
in Faulkner’s family, 124–7
Moby Dick (Melville), 178
Moreland, Richard C., 243n.4
Mosquitoes, 12, 14, 21–2, 28–31, 32, 34–6, 48, 57–8, 81, 116, 124, 134
“must matter,” 228–37
My Brother Bill (John [Johncy] Falkner), 37, 46, 92, 121
New Orleans Sketches, 24–5, 134
Ober, Harold, 218, 230, 232–3
Oldham, Lemuel, 79
Omlie, Vernon, 105–7
One Matchless Time (Parini), 4, 236, 242n.6
Origins of Faulkner’s Art, The (Sensibar), 21, 43, 241n.4
Parini, Jay, 4, 236, 242n.6
Parker, Dorothy, 20–1
Patton, Nelse, 123
Phil Stone of Oxford (Snell), 242nn.2–3
Plessy v. Ferguson, 121 Pound, Ezra (Cantos), 145
Prall, Elizabeth, 69, 79
Pylon, 104, 107–11, 193, 225
as anti-capitalist, 108–10
as extravagance, 107–8
flight and death in, 109–11
race, as civil rights turmoil, 115–9
as dark twinship, 115–7, 165–6
as segregation and violence, 120–3
as stereotype, 128, 158
Rebner, Wolfgang, 170–1, 182–5
Reivers, The, 10, 45, 227
retrospection, 2–3
Requiem for a Nun, 3, 107, 178, 196, 216, 219, 222, 236
Sanctuary, 9, 18, 20, 31, 36, 61, 78–9, 82–3, 87–8, 91–7, 178, 192–3, 211, 241n.2
distress in, 92–4
rape in, 91–7
transmogrification in, 92–4
Sartoris, 18
See also Flags in the Dust
Scott, Evelyn, 81, 236
Selected Letters of William Faulkner, 3, 43, 76, 81, 85, 87, 115, 118, 122, 132, 158, 170, 177, 218, 229–32, 245n.6
Sensibar, Judith, 21, 43, 240–1nn.1–4, 241–2n.1, 243n.2, 245n.4
Pygmalion (Shaw), 219
Smith, Harrison (Hal), 61, 86, 92, 169–70, 186, 225
Snell, Susan, 242nn.2–3
Soldiers’ Pay, 12, 14, 26–8, 31, 32, 35, 36, 81, 134
The Sound and the Fury, 9, 12, 18, 20–1, 23, 31, 33, 36, 42–5, 48–61 64–5, 81–2, 85, 87, 88–91, 94–5, 110, 134–7, 192–4, 211, 224, 236, 240n.2
biographical echoes in, 59–60
childhood in, 51, 53–6, 60–1
diagnosis of the South in, 55–6
interior monologue in, 56–9
Norton Critical edition of, 49, 55, 61, 83
racial nostalgia in, 134–7
temporal dislocation in, 49–56, 60–1
untimeliness in, 88–91
virginity in, 88, 212
Stein, Jean, 23, 52, 170, 220–1
Stone, Phil, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 34, 68–70, 79, 173, 230–1
“Stranger in the Village” (Baldwin), 138
Stumbling. See unpreparedness
Summers, Jill Faulkner, 21, 105, 112–3, 128, 170–1, 175–6, 180–1, 190, 196, 217, 220, 226, 228–9, 240–1n.2
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 14
Sundquist, Eric, 245n.8
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 21
Tate, Allen, 84, 86
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 227
Thinking of Home (Watson), 71–3, 78, 83, 122
Thirsty Muse, The (Dardis), 244nn.1–3
Till, Emmett, 132
Time, as assault, 6–7, 17–18, 85–8, 91–7
in biographies, 3–4, 8–9
as failed “becoming,” 1–5
as micro-time and macro-time, 6–7
as progress, 7–8
as retrospection (“was”), 2–3, 11, 17, 20–1
as tension between “was” and “is,” 11, 17–8, 23–4, 36, 52, 60–1, 73, 91
as unpreparedness (“is”), 2–4, 7–8, 11, 17, 20–1, 88, 91–7
See also unpreparedness
Today We Live (Hawks), 187
Tolstoy, Leo, 178, 245n.5
Town, The, 66, 107, 178, 189, 201, 226
Twain, Mark, 45, 227
Ulysses (Joyce), 60, 224–5, 241n.5
“unclotting.” See unpreparedness
unpreparedness, 1–3, 5–10, 73, 80–8, 101–3, 111–2, 176–7, 210–6, 235–7
See also time
untimeliness. See unpreparedness
Unvanquished, The, 114, 156, 158, 168, 225
Vardaman, James, 12
Verlaine, Paul (“Fantoches”), 78
Vision in Spring, 22
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 178, 245n.5
Warner, Jack, 217
Wasson, Ben, 18, 19, 34, 42, 48–9, 86, 87, 182
Watson, James G., 71–3, 78, 242n.4
Weinstein, Philip, 129–30, 244n.5
What Else But Love? (Weinstein), 129, 244n.5
White Rose of Memphis, The (W. C. Falkner), 75
Wilde, Meta Carpenter Rebner, 113, 168, 170–1, 179–85, 187–90, 196, 198, 202, 204, 217–9
Wilson, James, 85, 86
William Faulkner: Self-presentation and Performance (Watson), 242n.4
William Faulkner and Southern History (Williamson), 72, 86, 122–7, 175, 184, 243n.3
William Faulkner: une vie en romans (Bleikasten), 4, 73, 239n.2, 242n.5, 243n.9
Williams, Joan, 170, 218–20
Williamson, Joel, 72, 86, 122–7
Wolfe, Thomas, 84, 225
Woodward, C. Vann (The Burden of Southern History), 121, 243n.1
Yardley, Jonathan, 5
Yeats, W. B., 217
Young, Stark, 69, 79
Monument of the “Old Colonel” (William C. Falkner), cemetery in Ripley, Mississippi. From the Jane Isbell Hanes Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.
Maud Butler Falkner and her infant son William, c. 1900. Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.
The Falkner boys: Murry, William, John, and Dean, Oxford, Mississippi, c. 1910. Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.
Jaunty William Faulkner in flying officer’s uniform, December 1918. Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.
Estelle Oldham Franklin and her daughter Victoria, Shanghai, c. 1924. From the Brodsky Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.
William Faulkner: the artist as bohemian in Paris, 1925. William C. Odiorne. From the Brodsky Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.
William Faulkner: notorious author (photo taken after publication of Sanctuary), 1931. Cofield Collection, Southern Media Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries.
Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s antebellum home, purchased in 1930. From the Brodsky Collection, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University.