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Selected Bibliography

The list below is for anyone who is interested in further reading on William Faulkner and the issues and events discussed on the tapes. Stephen Railton chose the works by the Faulkner scholars on the archive's advisory board: Thadious Davis, Leigh Anne Duck and Noel Polk. Those three scholars selected the additional titles.

Joseph Blotner, Faulkner: A Biography (New York: Random House, 1974)

Thadious Davis, Faulkner's Negro: Art and the Southern Context (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983)

Leigh Anne Duck, The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006)

Taylor Hagood, Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008)

Grace Elizabeth Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (New York: Vintage, 1999)

John T. Matthews, William Faulkner: Seeing through the South (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Noel Polk, Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner (Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1998)

Judith Sensibar, Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)