Reading Faulkner by
William Faulkner once called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry." In that form, he achieved splendid success. He wrote over a hundred short stories, published nearly all of them during his lifetime, and has become one of the most frequently anthologized writers in the genre.
Robert Penn Warren by 
William Faulkner and Southern Culture by
One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury , As I Lay Dying , Light in August , and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place--the mythical Yoknapatawpha County--peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons, Sartorises, Snopes, and McCaslins.
The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter by
During a life that spanned ninety years, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) witnessed dramatic and intensely debated changes in the gender roles of American women. Mary Titus draws upon unpublished Porter papers, as well as newly available editions of her early fiction, poetry, and reviews, to trace Porter’s shifting and complex response to those cultural changes. Titus shows how Porter explored her own ambivalence about gender and creativity, for she experienced firsthand a remarkable range of ideas concerning female sexuality.
The Theatre of Tennessee Williams by 
Zora! Zora Neale Hurston by 
From Texas to the World and Back by
A collection of essays exploring the classic American author's tenuous relationship with her home state & also with her family background, both as it was & as she liked to imagine it.
William Faulkner by
This intellectual biography relates the nature of Faulkners thought to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era. Through detailed analyses of individual texts, from the earliest poetry through Go Down, Moses, Singal traces Faulkners attempt to liberate himself from his native culture of Southern Victorian repression by embracing the Modernist culture of the artistic avant-garde.
Tennessee Williams by
This text, as part of a series of research and study guides, is an introduction to the critical analysis of popular dramatists. Each guide covers three to six plays, offering a variety of viewpoints by different critics on aspects of each work.
Zora in Florida by
Following years of neglect, Zora Neale Hurston’s status in American letters is restored: she is now recognized as one of the foremost African-American writers of the twentieth century—an artist of the Harlem Renaissance and a native Florida writer.Zora in Floridafocuses on the place that nurtured and inspired her work, the frontier wilderness of central Florida and the all-black town of Eatonville.