A result of their friendship was one of the greatest literary biographies in American letters about one of the most inscrutable subjects imaginable.īlotner took a somewhat circuitous route to academic stardom.
Once Faulkner was on board, Blotner and Gwynn coordinated thousands of requests for the writer's time, and Blotner and Faulkner became friends in the course of the author's two residencies, in 19. Salinger." Blotner edited the Library of America editions of Faulkner's novels and short stories, and received accolades that ranged from Guggenheim fellowships to membership in the French Legion of Honor for his work in Southern literature and in particular his Faulkner scholarship.īlotner, along with English professor Frederick Gwynn and English department chairman Floyd Stovall, persuaded then-University President Colgate Darden to hire Faulkner as U.Va.'s writer-in-residence in 1957. He also wrote indispensable scholarly works, including the "Modern American Political Novel" and the "Fiction of J.D. The same can be said of Warren biographer Joseph Blotner, the former University of Virginia faculty member who made a career of turning lives into art.īlotner is best known as the biographer of two of America's greatest writers, Warren and William Faulkner.
6, 2007 - When poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren heard of the death of his friend John Crowe Ransom, he said that Ransom's life was in the end his chief work of art.
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