Mosquitoes: A Facsimile and Transcription of the University of Virginia Holog$ [Hardcover]

William Faulkner (Author), David L. Vander Meulen (Author, Editor), Thomas L. McHaney (Author, Editor), David Vander Meulen (Author), Thomas McHaney (Author), William (1897-1962) Faulkner (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"The publication of a facsimile edition of this document is much to be desired. Because of its exceptionally early date, and because it is very much a working manuscript, it is of considerably greater importance than many of the Faulkner facsimiles already available." Michael Millgate
"In this meticulous volume, with its detailed apparatus, McHaney places the book firmly in the context of Faulkner's life with all its shaping circumstances and influences." Joseph Blotner

About the Author

Thomas L. McHaney is the author of William Faulkner's The Wild Palms: A Study; William Faulkner: A Reference Guide; and many essays of Faulkner's life and work. He is editor of Faulkner Studies in Japan and co-editor (with Joseph Blotner, Michael Millgate, and Noel Polk) on the 25-volume William Faulkner Manuscripts. Currently he is Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature, and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. David L. Vander Meulen is the author of Pope's Dunciad of 1728: A History and Facsimile and, with G. Thomas Tanselle, editor of Samuel Johnson's Translation of Sallust: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hyde Manuscript. He is Professor English at the University of Virginia and editor of Studies in Bibliography.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 118 pages
• Publisher: Bibliographical Society of the Univ; 1 Ed edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188363105X
• ISBN-13: 978-1883631055
• Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 9.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,523,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank.

Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925.

His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.

William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.