Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner

(Oxford University Press)

In this biography of the Southern writer William Faulkner, the author explores the relationship between the writer’s troubled life and the kinds of trouble Faulkner conveyed in his fiction. Weinstein examines Faulkner’s broken marriage, his depression and alcoholism, and the impact his great-grandfather — a Civil War hero who may have fathered a child with a black servant — had on the writer. Weinstein is an English professor at Swarthmore College.