Download American Legends: The Life of William Faulkner AudioBook Free
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most important figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of America's most important women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Using the notable exclusion of Tag Twain, whose roots over the Mississippi River factored so extensively into his life storyline and his books, America's greatest writers have rarely been categorized by or associated with a particular region of the country. And among America's best 20th century writers, many have been recognized with a particular age, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and the 1920s, or even while part of the community of expatriates, like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. William Faulkner is an exception to that rule, and a prolific and important one at that. The reclusive Southerner, who perished about 40 mls from his birthplace in New Albany, Mississippi, was from the South as a region and Southern books in particular throughout his profession, at least when he was associated with some thing. Faulkner toiled in comparative obscurity for much of his life, and it was only after he attained a Nobel Award in 1949 that he truly inserted the national radar. He later joked about his own neighbours, "Some people wouldn't even speak when they approved me on the road...it wasn't before Nobel Award that they really thawed out
