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Composer: Wallace, Simon

The Life and Work of William Faulkner

Hossick, Malcolm

Television Director: Hossick, Malcolm

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Narrator: Hossick, Malcolm

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Year of Production: 2019

Playing Time: 00:34:17

Catalogue Number: L7882DVD

UPC: 709629278820

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Introduces the major themes of Faulkner's poems, plays, short stories, and novels. The program contextualizes life in the American south in the first half of the 20th century; Faulkner's southern upbringing, family history, and race relations in the wake of the Civil War were a major influence on his fiction. In 1924, Faulkner left his small town of Oxford and spent six months in New Orleans, where he was finally able to see the conditions of his upbringing from a distance and become acquainted with a literary circle with Sherwood Anderson at the center, jump-starting his serious fiction writing.