William Faulkner:
Publications

Drama:

Plays:

• The Marionettes. 1920. Charlottesville, Virginia: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the University Press of Virginia, 1975.

Screenplays for which Faulkner received on-screen credit:

• Today We Live. Screenplay by Edith Fitzgerald and Dwight Taylow; Story and Dialogue by Faulkner. Dir. Howard Hawks. MGM, 1933.
• The Road to Glory. Screenplay by Joel Sayre and Faulkner. Dir. Howard Hawks. Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936.
• Slave Ship. Screenplay by Sam Hellman, Lamar Trotti, and Gladys Lehman; Story by Faulkner. Dir. Tay Garnett. Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937.
• To Have and Have Not. Screenplay by Jules Furthman and Faulkner. Dir. Howard Hawks. Warner Brothers, 1944.
• The Big Sleep. Screenplay by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackette, and Jules Furthman. Dir. Howard Hawks. Warner Brothers, 1946.
• Land of the Pharaohs. Screenplay by William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, and Harold Jack Bloom. Dir. Howard Hawks. Warner Brothers, 1955.

In addition, Faulkner contributed to numerous other screenplays for which he received no credit. For a complete list, see Bruce Kawin, Faulkner and Film (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1977).

Additional published screenplays:

• The De Gaulle Story. Written in 1942. In Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume III: The De Gaulle Story. Edited by Louis D. Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.
• Battle Cry. Written in 1943. In Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry. Edited by Louis D. Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.
• Stallion Road. Written in 1945. Published as a supplement to Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. Edited by Louis D. Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989.
• Faulkner's MGM Screenplays. Edited with an introduction and commentaries by Bruce F. Kawin. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. Includes Manservant; The College Widow; Absolution; Flying the Mail; Turn About/Today We Live; War Birds/A Ghost Story; Honor; Mythical Latin-American Kingdom Story; Louisiana Lou/Lazy River.

Fiction:

Novels:

• Soldiers' Pay. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926.
• Mosquitoes. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.
• Sartoris. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929.
• The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.
• As I Lay Dying. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930.
• Sanctuary. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931.
• Light in August. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932.
• Pylon. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1935.
• Absalom, Absalom! New York: Random House, 1936.
• The Unvanquished. New York: Random House, 1938.
• The Wild Palms. New York: Random House, 1939. (Later to be published under its restored original title, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem)
• The Hamlet. New York: Random House, 1940.
• Go Down, Moses.  New York: Random House, 1942.
• Intruder in the Dust. New York: Random House, 1948.
• Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random House, 1951.
• A Fable. New York: Random House, 1954.
• The Town. New York: Random House, 1957.
• The Mansion. New York: Random House, 1959.
• The Reivers. New York: Random House, 1962.
• Flags in the Dust. Original uncut edition of Sartoris. Edited with an introduction by Douglas Day. New York: Random House, 1973.

Short Stories and Other Fiction:

• Mayday. Written in 1926. Introduction by Carvel Collins. South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977.
• The Wishing Tree. Written in 1927. New York: Random House, 1967.
• Father Abraham. Written in 1927. Edited by James B. Meriwether with wood engravings by John DePol. New York: Random House, 1983.
• Sanctuary: The Original Text. Edited with an afterword and notes by Noel Polk. New York: Random House, 1981.
• These 13. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931.
• Idyll in the Desert. New York: Random House, 1931. (Limited edition of 400 copies.)
• Miss Zilphia Gant. Dallas: Book Club of Texas, 1932. (Limited edition of 300 copies.)
• Doctor Martino and Other Stories. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934.
• Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen. Story outlines for prospective films written in the early 1940s. Published as a supplement to Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. Edited by Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.
• The Portable Faulkner. Selected and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Press, 1946.
• Knight's Gambit. New York: Random House, 1949.
• Collected Stories. New York: Random House, 1950.
• Notes on a Horsethief. Greenville, Mississippi: Levee Press, 1951.
• The Faulkner Reader. Foreword by Faulkner. New York: Random House, 1953.
• Big Woods: The Hunting Stories. New York: Random House, 1955.
• Three Famous Short Novels. New York: Random House, 1958.
• Uncollected Stories. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York: Random House, 1979.

Nonfiction:

• Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925. Edited by James G. Watson. New York: Norton, 1992.
• Faulkner at Nagano (speeches and interviews). Edited by Robert A. Jelliffe. Tokyo: Kenkyusha Ltd., 1956.
• Faulkner in the University (interviews). Edited by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1959.
• Early Prose and Poetry. Edited by Carvel Collins. Boston: Little, Brown, 1962.
• Faulkner at West Point (interviews). Edited by Joseph L. Fant and Robert Ashley. New York: Random House, 1964.
• Essays, Speeches & Public Letters. Edited by James B. Meriwether. New York: Random House, 1966.
• The Faulkner-Cowley File: Letters and Memoirs, 1944-1962. By Malcolm Cowley. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
• Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner 1926-1962. Edited by James B. Meriwether and Michael Millgate. New York: Random House, 1968.
• New Orleans Sketches. Edited by Carvel Collins. New York: Random House, 1968.
• Selected Letters of William Faulkner. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York: Random House, 1977.
• Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume II: The Letters. Edited by Louis D. Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1984.

Poetry:

• Vision in Spring. Written in 1921. Edited by Judith Sensibar. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.
• The Marble Faun. Boston: Four Seas, 1924.
• Mississippi Poems. Written in 1924. In Helen: A Courtship and Mississippi Poems. Introductory essays by Carvel Collins and Joseph Blotner. New Orleans: Tulane University Press and Oxford, Mississippi: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1981.
• Helen: A Courtship. Written in 1925. In Helen: A Courtship and Mississippi Poems. Introductory essays by Carvel Collins and Joseph Blotner. New Orleans: Tulane University Press and Oxford, Mississippi: Yoknapatawpha Press, 1981.
• A Green Bough. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933.

Scholarly editions:

Under the editorial direction of Noel Polk, most of Faulkner's novels have been re-released under the designation "The Corrected Text," in which Polk has gone back to the original manuscripts and galley proofs to restore as much as possible Faulkner's original intended words, phrases, and punctuation that for whatever reason had been altered in the earliest published editions of his books. They are available singularly in editions published by Vintage and the Modern Library.

They are available also in the collected volumes published by the Library of America, which to date has published three Faulkner volumes, each with Polk's corrected text of four novels and with notes by Joseph Blotner. They are as follows:

• William Faulkner: Novels, 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York: Library of America, 1985.
• William Faulkner: Novels, 1936-1940: Absalom, Absalom!, The Unvanquished, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, The Hamlet. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York: Library of America, 1990
• William Faulkner: Novels, 1942-1954: Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust, Requiem for a Nun, A Fable. Edited by Joseph Blotner. New York: Library of America, 1994.

Norton has published a Critical Edition of The Sound and the Fury, which includes Polk's corrected text along with the Compson Appendix, selected letters by Faulkner, and a number of critical studies of the novel, and more recently has issued facsimile reproductions of Faulkner's first two novels, Soldiers' Pay and Mosquitoes, which for a long time were out of print.

For more information on Faulkner's works, including commentaries, additional resources, and bibliographies of criticism on individual titles, visit The Library section of William Faulkner on the Web.

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