My brother Bill
By: John Faulkner ; foreword by Jimmy Faulkner.
Series: Hill Street classics
Publisher: Hill Street Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Family; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Homes and haunts -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Childhood and youth; Faulkner, John, 1901-1963; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Brothers -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- Biography; Oxford (Miss.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Oxford (Miss.) -- Social life and customs; Oxford (Miss.) -- Biography
Description: Perhaps no one knew the intensely private William Faulkner better than his brother John. At the time of Bill's funeral, a reporter remarked that seeing John walking the streets of Oxford, Mississippi was like encountering the ghost of his brother. Indeed, John and Bill were mirrors of one another in many ways. In this memoir we find an intimate and at times humorous portrait of William and his brothers from childhood through adulthood.

John provides a keen view of the local characters and situations which Bill later used in his novels.