Essays, speeches & public letters / Edited by James B. Meriwether.
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Language: | English |
Donor: | Rare Books Collection copy gift of Michael John Bowen; |
Local Note: | Rare Books Collection copy M.J. Bowen William Faulkner Collection. |
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New York :
Random House,
[1966, ©1965]
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Table of Contents:
- Essays: A note on Sherwood Anderson
- Mississippi
- A guest's impression of New England
- An innocent at rinkside
- Kentucky, May, Saturday
- On privacy
- Impressions of Japan
- To the youth of Japan
- Letter to a northern editor
- On fear, deep South in labor, Mississippi
- A letter to the leaders in the Negro race
- Albert Camus.
- Speeches: Funeral sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr
- Upon receiving the Nobel Prize for literature
- To the graduating class, University High School
- Upon being made an officer of the Legion of Honor
- To the Delta Council
- To the graduating class, Pine Manor Junior College
- Upon receiving the National Book Award for fiction
- To the Southern Historical Association
- Upon receiving the Silver Medal of the Athens Academy
- To the American Academy of Arts and Letters in presenting the gold medal for fiction to John Dos Passos
- To the Raven, Jefferson, and ODK Societies of the University of Virginia
- To the English Club of the University of Virginia
- To the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO
- To the American Academy of Arts and Letters upon acceptance of the gold medal for fiction.
- Introductions: Foreword to Sherwood Anderson & other famous creoles
- Introduction to the Modern Library edition of Sanctuary
- Foreword to The Faulkner reader.
- Book reviews: The road back, by Erich Maria Remarque
- Test pilot, by Jimmy Collins
- The old man and the sea, by Ernest Hemingway.
- Public letters: To the book editor of the Chicago Tribune
- To the president of the League of American writers
- To the editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal
- " His name was Pete," Oxford Eagle
- To the editor of The Oxford Eagle
- To the secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- To the voters of Oxford
- To the editor of Time
- Statement to the press on the Willie McGee case, Memphis Commercial Appeal
- To the editor of the New York Times
- Press dispatch on the Emmett Till case
- To the editor of Life
- To the editor of The reporter
- Notice, Oxford Eagle.