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The Wishing Tree (William Faulkner Book)
''The Wishing Tree'' is a 1927 children's book by William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of .... The plot is written as a morality tale. Faulkner wrote this book for Victoria Franklin, daughter of his sweetheart Estelle Oldham (whom he later married). Bibliography * Brodsky, Louis Daniel & Robert W. Hamblin 1985. "A Textual History of Faulkner's 'The Wishing-Tree' and 'The Wishing Tree'." ''Studies in Bibliography'', Volume 38. Fredson Bowers. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 330–74 References External links Blog with original images from ''The Wishing Tree'' Review of the book Works by William Faulkner 1927 children's books {{1920s-child-fantasy-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature. Born in New Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner's family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young child. With the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel '' Soldiers' Pay'' (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote '' Sartoris'' (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published ''The Sound and the Fury''. The following year, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Daniel Brodsky
Louis Daniel Brodsky (Louis Brodsky, L. D. Brodsky) (April 17, 1941 – June 16, 2014) was an American poet, short story writer, and Faulkner scholar. Life Louis Daniel Brodsky was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1941. He attended St. Louis Country Day School. After earning a B.A., magna cum laude, at Yale University in 1963, he received an M.A. in English from Washington University in 1967 and an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University the following year. He married Jan Hofmann July 8, 1970 and had two children. From 1968 to 1987, while continuing to write poetry, he assisted in managing a 350-person men's-clothing factory in Farmington, Missouri, and started one of the Midwest's first factory-outlet apparel chains. From 1980 to 1991, he taught English and creative writing, part-time, at Mineral Area College, in nearby Flat River. From 1987 onward, he lived in St. Louis, with his wife and his daughter and son, and devoted himself to composing poems and shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works By William Faulkner
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