Essays, speeches & public letters / Edited by James B. Meriwether.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Other Authors: Meriwether, James B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Donor:Rare Books Collection copy gift of Michael John Bowen;
Local Note:Rare Books Collection copy M.J. Bowen William Faulkner Collection.
Published: 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.