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One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place--the mythical Yoknapatawpha County--peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons, Sartorises, Snopes, and McCaslins. Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored his own region--the history and culture and people of the South. Now, in William Faulkner and Southern History, one of America's most acclaim...
Removes the foundations of classical Greek history, and begins creating new ones
John Thompson (d. ca. 1760) is believed to be of Scotch-Irish origin and first settled in America in Pennsylvania. He and his wife Mary had six children and later moved to Halifax County, North Carolina. There sons migrated to Virginia. Solomon Thompson (1842-1903) was born in Virginia and married Nancy Ellen Ball. She descends from John Ball (b. ca. 1670- d. 1722) of Virginia. Solomon and Nancy had eight children, and raised them in Wayne County, West Virginia. Descendants now live throughout the United States.
A First Grader's struggle with understanding and dealing with anger.
William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, and family dynamics, he wrote novels, stories, and lectures that continue to shape our understanding of the region's promises and problems. His experiments and inventions in form and style have influenced generations of writers. Originally published in 1974 as a two-volume edition and extensively updated and condensed in a 1991 reissue, Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography remains the quintessential resource on the Nobel laureate's life and work. The Chicago Tribune said, "This is an ov...
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