Nobel Prize Winner William Faulkner’s Battle With Grief
No matter his afflictions or his adultery, in the end he rededicated himself to his family and served his country as a distinguished literary figure traveling abroad under the auspices of the Department of State.
‘Between Grief and Nothing: The Passions, Addictions and Tragic End of William Faulkner’
By Lisa C. Hickman
McFarland, 315 Pages
Pathography is Joyce Carol Oates’s word for literary biographers who dwell on “dysfunction and disaster, illnesses and pratfalls, failed marriages and failed careers, alcoholism and breakdowns and outrageous conduct.” The word could apply to Lisa Hickman, who details dozens of William Faulkner’s breakdowns and hospitalizations, usually for what his doctors diagnosed as “acute alcoholism.”
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