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Michael Gorra

Michael Gorra
The author of Portrait of Novel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Gorra is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College and the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.


Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

Michael Gorra on William Faulkner's Great-Grandfather
August 24, 2020  By Michael Gorra
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