The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memories, 1944-1962.
New York: Viking, 1966. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy with bookplate on front paste down in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. By 1944, Faulkner had published seventeen books including novels, stories and poems but not oneof them was in print and he was considered "finished" as a writer. In early 1944, critic and literary historian Malcolm Cowley had reread Faulkner's works and had begun work on a critical assessment of the patterns in Faulkner's canon of work. Cowley sent Faulkner a letter asking for some information and thus began their on-going correspondence that is here published for the first time. The result of Cowley's revisting Faulkner's writing was a critical reevaluation of his genius. Item #29291
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