Lisa C. Hickman is the author of William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers; Stranger to the Truth, a narrative nonfiction work chronicling a high-profile Memphis matricide case; and editor of Remembering: Joan Williams’ Uncollected Pieces. She holds her PhD from the University of Mississippi and is currently at work on Between Grief and Nothing: Faulkner’s Later Years, from which this essay is excerpted.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

The Road to Glory: Faulkner’s Hollywood Years, 1932–1936
Lisa C. Hickman reconstructs William Faulkner’s tumultuous Hollywood sojourn of 1932–1936....

Tiger Lady: On Joan Williams
Faulkner tried the personae of mentor, father figure, and literary conduit in an effort to have a love affair that trumped the other roles....
