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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20021001
Author:Blotner, Joseph

Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha. By Don H. Doyle. University of North Carolina Press. $49.45 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Some of William Faulkner's remarks about his work are now almost as famous as some phrases in the work itself. He quoted Sherwood Anderson's advice to him in New Orleans that he should go home and write about what he knew, that patch of north Mississippi where he grew up. As he meditated on it he discovered that "my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it, and by sublimating the ...

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