![]() It was also apparent that, because he had been authorized by Mrs. Faulkner fans were ambivalent, delighted to have the new information, but sorry it couldn’t have been embodied in a more distinguished form. A gigantic work - the boxed two-volume edition ran to 1846 pages - it contained a staggering amount of information, but treated its subject in a dully chronological way and with the most pedestrian of styles. Blotner’s book fell on the literary world with all the grace of the wreck of the Hindenburg. The man whom many consider to have been America’s greatest writer of prose fiction was the most private of individuals, who distorted and obscured most of the facts of his life his biography had been awaited with much anticipation. The publication in 1974 of Joseph Blotner’s Faulkner: A Biography was a literary event by default. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Johns Hopkins University Press, 325 pp., $16.95. William Faulkner, His Life and Work by David Minter. ![]()
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