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Even as William Faulkner Struggled, Ursula Parrott Thrived

Parrott is forgotten and Faulkner is famous. This is so much more than a matter of quality, which is why we need biography.

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Ursula Parrott from the 1920 yearbook of Radcliffe College. Via Wikimedia Commons
CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

‘Ex-Wife’
By Ursula Parrott
McNally Editions, 232 pages

‘Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott’
By Marsha Gordon
University of California Press, 312 pages

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CARL ROLLYSON
CARL ROLLYSON

Mr. Rollyson is the author of The Life of William Faulkner and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath. He has published fourteen biographies and has written about biography for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington, Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Criterion, and other publications.

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