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Barr, Caroline (Mammy Callie), 43–4, 83–4, 113, 122, 128–30, 240n.1, 242n.7, 243n.2, 245n.4

“The Bear,” 5

Bilbo, Theodore, 122–3

Bleikasten, André, 4, 73, 239n.2, 243n.9

Blotner, Joseph, 3–5, 230, 232, 242–3nn.1, 7

Bouvard, Loïc, 52

Brown v. Board of Education
, 117, 130, 132

Butler, Leila Dean Swift, 38, 47

Buzzerides, A. I. (“Buzz”), 170

Carpenter, Meta.
See
Wilde, Meta Carpenter Rebner

Cerf, Bennett, 86–7

“cant matter,” 1–10, 228, 235–7, 239n.1

in Faulkner’s life, 1–4, 8–9, 228

in Faulkner’s work, 8–10, 235–7

Chapsal, Madeline, 239–40n.3

childhood, in Faulkner’s fiction, 36, 48, 51, 53–6, 60–1

in Faulkner’s life, 36–48

Cofield, J. R., 72

Coindreau, Maurice, 231

Coleridge, Samuel T., 145

Commercial Appeal, Memphis
, 120, 131–2, 183

Companion to William Faulkner, A
(Moreland), 243n.4

Connelly, Marc, 87

Count No ‘Count
(Wasson), 19, 30–1, 42, 182

Cowley, Malcolm, 4, 5, 44, 170, 176, 218, 227, 233

Crime and Punishment
(Dostoevsky), 97

cummings, e. e.
(The Enormous Room)
, 14

Cummins, Saxe, 170, 175

Dardis, Tom, 244nn.1–3

Devine, Jim, 169

Dixon, Thomas
(The Clansman)
, 46

Dos Passos, John
(Three Soldiers)
, 14

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 56, 97

Doubling and Incest
(Irwin), 241n.4

“Dry September,” 120

Du Bois, W. E. B., 115

Eliot, T. S., 22, 145

Ellison, Ralph, 127

“Elmer,” 25–6, 36

Enormous Room, The
(cummings), 14

Essays and Public Letters
(Faulkner), 24, 115, 117–9, 130–3, 230

Fable, A
, 177–8, 197, 216–7, 222–4, 236

Falkner, Colonel W. C., 6, 33, 40–1, 74–6, 124–7, 162–3, 177, 243n.3

Falkner, Emeline Lacy, 125–7

Falkner, Lizzy Vance, 125–6

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

See also Sartoris

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