The Washington Post, August 16th, 1987
WILLIAM FAULKNER The Man and the Artist By Stephen B. Oates Harper & Row. 363 pp. $22.50 STEPHEN B. OATES, who has made a career of writing dramatic biographies of dramatic figures, here turns his hand to a man whose life was lived almost entirely in the mind; he has made an unwise choice, for the mating of biographer and subject turns out to be unsuitable. William Faulkner was the great American novelist of the century, but his life's story is essentially irrelevant to his work; Oates attempts to juice up that story with hyperventilated prose and lavish attention to Faulkner's sex life, but i...
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