lyle saxoN 209 210 Sketch based on Chance Harvey, The Life and Selected Letters ofLyle Saxon (Pelican, 2003), and Anthony Stanonis, “'Always in Costume and Mask': Lyle Saxon and New Orleans Tourism,” Louisiana History 42, no.
Faulkner, whose Soldiers' Pay (1926) had also been published following Anderson's efforts, less publicly but just as sharply ridiculed Anderson in the foreword to Sherwood Anderson fr Other Famous Creoles (1926), a book published in a ...
" The book contained 43 sketches of New Orleans artists, by Spratling, with captions and a short introduction by Faulkner. The title served as a rather obscure joke: Sherwood was not a Creole and neither were most of the people featured.
Not long after starting the novel, Kesey befriended the legendary Neal Cassady. Known to locals as the “King of San Francisco” and by the North Beach police as “Johnny Potseed,” the handsome blue-eyed Cassady added another dimension to ...
The latter two were not included among Spratling's drawings in Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, but they were very much a part of the circle. Previously, Healy had known Faulkner at Ole Miss when he was postmaster, ...
Box 6 , Folder 2 , contains a short story by N.V.S. citing Mrs. Scott's illness in 1903 , which required a friend to stay with her at home . Natalie's World War I letters make numerous references to her mother's health , such as those ...
Second row : Max Gougeot , manager , Clem Sehrt , Weilbacher , J. Madden , Fr. Martin , Coach Bill Healey , Ray Mock , Bob Landry , Doc Erskine . Third row : Joseph Vella , Ike Favalora , Leo Blessing , Bob Morris , Clarence Hebert ...
The photograph of the portrait of Grace King by Wayman Adams on page 298 is reproduced through the courtesy of the New Orleans Museum of Art . My thanks go to William Fagaly , assistant director , for showing me the original painting .
them: When a Mississippian sent him a letter complimenting his "true poetic lines" in The Marble Faun, Faulkner derided this unusable response and sent to Oxford for Phil Stone's amusement a copy of his seemingly courteous but actually ...
Hurston's research on hoodoo: Robert E. Hemenway, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1980), 123. “Didn't have a phonograph”: La Farge, Raw Material, 114. “Slatternly washerwoman”: William Spratling, ...