Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 5:00pm
In Ledgers of History, Wolff uncovers a little-known friendship of
William Faulkner's and and reveals startling sources of inspiration for
Faulkners most famous works. The book includes inverviews with Dr. Edgar
Wiggin Francisco III, who as a child would sit and listen as his father
and Faulkner---childhood friends---swapped stories. Faulkner also
displayed an absorbing interest in a seven-volume diary kept by Dr.
Franciscos great-great-grandfather Francis Terry Leak, a pre-Civil War
era plantation owner in Mississippi. Wolff shows how the diary is the
source for some of the most important material in several of his
greatest works, including Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. Ledgers
of History offers a compelling portrait of the future Nobel laureate
near the midpoint of his legendary career and also charts a significant
discovery that will inevitably lead to revisions in historical and
critical scholarship on Faulkner and his writings.
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$43.75
ISBN: 9780807137017
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Published: LSU Press - October 15th, 2010