Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead

Schedule:

July 11th @ 1:00 PM CT: Film Is Live on Kinema through July 15th

July 13th @ 1:00PM CT: Carl Rollyson Faulkner Scholar Live Zoom Discussion (Zoom Link Sent Separately On July 11th)

Whether you're new to William Faulkner and his works or an avid follower of his work - we invite you to check out the award-winning film Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead. This documentary film shares William Faulkner's upbringing, the struggles and achievements he ran into and how all of this culminated into one of the most relevant and important figures in American literature. As we've screened these films, we are traveling around the world to see how Faulkner has influenced global cultures from France to Japan to Russia and beyond.

This film will be viewable from July 11th - July 13th to allow our audience to check out the film ahead of a live Q&A (on Zoom) with our Faulkner Scholar.

About Our Scholar

Dr. Carl Rollyson is a University of Toronto Ph.D. He has published more than forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, Jill Craigie, Dana Andrews, Sylvia Plath, Amy Lowell, and Walter Brennan to studies of American culture, genealogy, children’s biography, film, and literary criticism. He has authored more than 500 articles on American and European literature and history. His work has been reviewed in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Sunday Telegraph, TLS and in journals such as American Literature and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. For four years (2003-2007) he wrote a weekly column, "On Biography," for The New York Sun and was President of the Rebecca West Society (2003-2007). His plays, That Woman: Rebecca West Remembers and A Real American Character: Walter Brennan Remembers have been produced at Theatresource in New York City and at the Josephy Center in Joseph, Oregon. His biography of Amy Lowell was awarded a "We the People" NEH grant. Two other NEH grants have supported books on biography and Rebecca West. His reviews of biography have appeared in The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Raleigh News & Observer, The Kansas City Star, The Barnes & Noble Review, The University Bookman and The New Criterion. My column, "Biographology," appeared in bibliobuffet.com. He is also an advisory editor for the Hollywood Legends series published by the University Press of Mississippi. He welcomes queries from those interested in contributing to the series. The Life of William Faulkner, Volume 1: The Past is Never Dead, and Volume 2: This Alarming Paradox and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath were published 2020. He is now working on, William Faulkner Day by Day and Sylvia Plath Day by Day as well The Making of Sylvia Plath, which will present new material about her early life that alters what we know about how she ended her life. Another forthcoming project: a book on presidential biography, arising out of two decades of reviewing biographies of American presidents.

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