Publisher's Synopsis
Faulkner would repeat a similar explanation throughout his interviews and lectures, stressing the fact that a writer is different from a literary man. Faulkner's writing, however, directly contradicts his claim, as evidenced by the countless volumes of work dedicated to explicating Faulkner's design, his literary "craft," and determining its source, his intellectual history. Information on the latter, however, is vague at best, and Faulkner's own word is tricky to trust. For example, one of the more frequently quoted passages from Faulkner's letters includes the following moment of recollection, as written to his protégé (and lover) Joan Williams,
