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One Matchless Time:

BIOGRAPHER OF FAULKNER STRIVES FOR READABILITY

It has been more than 30 years since Joseph Blotner wrote a two-volume, 2,000-page biography of the incomparable novelist William Faulkner -- and Jay Parini never intended to match Blotner's sheer bulk. Parini and his publisher decided that 500 pages was sufficient for his book, "One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner."
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Time Matchless One

Short Bio on William Faulkner

American short story writer, novelist, best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle, a comedie humaine of the American South, which started in 1929 with SARTORIS / FLAGS IN THE DUST and completed with THE MANSION in 1959. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Faulkner's style is not very easy - in this he has much connections to European literary modernism. His sentences are long and hypnotic, sometimes he withholds important details or refers to people or events that the reader will not learn about until much later.
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I remember having to read some of his work in college lit class. I found his style to be very purposeful and deliberate. William Faulkner loved to use big words and long sentences and sometimes has a tendency for losing people who are not used to his verbiage. I cant begin to imagine how hard it was to write a biography on William Faulkner.