William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkners life and work before now. William Faulkner Day by Day provides unique insight into the daily life of one of Americas favorite writers. Beyond biography, this book is an effort to recover the diurnal Faulkner, to write in the present tense about past events as if they are happening now. More importantly, this book is concerned with more than the writers life. Instead, it examines the whole manthe daily, mundane, profound, life changing, and everything in between.

Spanning from the 1825 birth of Faulkners great-grandfather to Faulkners death 137 years later to the day, author and biographer Carl Rollyson presents for the first time a complete portrait of Faulkners life untethered from any one biographical or critical narrative. Presented as a chronology of events without comment, this book is accompanied by an extensive list of principal personages and is supported by extensive archival research and interviews. Populated by the characters of Faulkners lifeincluding family and friends both little known and internationally famousthis book is for Faulkner readers of all kinds with a wide variety of interests in the man and his work.