William Faulkner Day by Day William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...

February 12, 1958 10:30-12:00 a.m.: Office hours in Cabell Hall. Reads the New York Times or works on his fiction if no students appear. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...

The Making of Sylvia Plath Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po...

Teachers noticed her talent. Mrs. Warren told her she had a “flair” for English. “She firmly believes I have a talent for oral talks,” Sylvia recorded in her diary for February 12, 1946. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...; www.amazon.com/Writers-thei...

William Faulkner Day by Day William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...

February 10, 1955: Writes to the Memphis Commercial Appeal ridiculing a letter attacking “shiftless” Negroes. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...

The Making of Sylvia Plath Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po...

The great event that made the move to London worthwhile was the signing on 2/10/60 of her first book contract for The Colossus and Other Poems, to appear in the fall published by Heinemann in England, with her editor seeking an American publisher. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...

William Faulkner Day by Day William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...

February 9, 1931: Cape and Smith publish revised Sanctuary in an edition of 2,219 copies. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...; about the film based on the novel: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...

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February 9, 1902: On his birthday watches his first motion picture. www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...

Faulkner On and Off the Page Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work. Faulkner’s view of himself and his own family was mer...

2/6/21 int with Michael Gorra: “I wanted to…tell what Faulkner…was probably incapable of doing because that’s not the way his mind worked…provide a sort of history of Yoknapatawpha from the days of white settlement on up to about 1930. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...

A new book on Paul and Eslanda Robeson. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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February 5, 1963: c. 4:00-8:00 a.m: Completes “Balloons,” “Edge”
Sees Dr. Horder who prescribes anti-depressants www.amazon.com/Sylvia-Plath...

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2/5/25: “Charming” was the word that Samuel Goldwyn’s new secretary, Valeria Belletti, used when she met Colman for the first time just after shooting had been completed on His Supreme Moment. Part of that charm had to do with a certain polite reserve. www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...

William Faulkner Day by Day William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...

February 5, 1958: 10:30-12:00 a.m: Office hours in Cabell Hall. Reads the New York Times or works on his fiction if no students appear.

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February 4, 1962: Shows up at the home of Jim and Dutch Silver to watch Car 54, Where are You? www.amazon.com/William-Faul...

2/4/41: Sid Shalit, NY Daily News on Rebecca, starring RC and Ida Lupino: “If radio had its equivalent of Academy Awards, it couldn’t do better than last night’s drama. It jammed suspense, skillful telescoping of plot situations and unbelievably good acting into a perfect hour.”

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Course | The Art of Literary Biography with Carl Rollyson   | Virtual — The Rosenbach Museum & Library Readings from  British Biography: A Reader  will inform course discussion on what makes a biography comparable in some ways to the novel and in others to works of history and literary criticism.

Starts today. All sessions recorded for those who have to miss some of the meetings. www.rosenbach.org/programs/cou...

February 2, 2021: “Ronald Colman at 130: A Heritage to Cherish and Bequeath”: parkridgeclassicfilm.com/2021/02/02/r...
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The Making of Sylvia Plath Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po...

1/2/47: scrapbook labeled in “old English letters”: “Sylvia Plath - 1947.” Pastes in snapshots of herself as a child, of friends, fills up “every empty space with “a more or less running account of my life history and descriptions of my experiences.” www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...

Faulkner On and Off the Page Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work. Faulkner’s view of himself and his own family was mer...

2/1/55: “Dearest Beautiful Pretty Miss [Jean] Stein being your sole owner & proprietor takes up all my time.” Asleep or awake, it didn’t matter: “I love you.” He dreamed about her, but wanted to wake up, look at her, and then go back to sleep again. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faul...

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1/31/43: AP writer describes an “unCalifornia home“on a rise of Beverly Hills, yes, but there isn’t a palm tree in sight. Instead, what first greets you is an English-style garden, with old trees, carefully-tended flower beds, and wide stretches of lawn.”
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The Making of Sylvia Plath Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking po...

1/31/47: Her diary: “who knows someday you might be in print. Once I start to write it is so hard to stop. There are so many things that I feel deeply about and want to get written down in here before it is to [sic] late and they have slipped away.”
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2 Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetr...

January 30, 1963: David Manchin, Heinemann editor of The Bell Jar, writes to congratulate Sylvia on the “excellent reviews that are coming your way.” He asks if they can meet, and they agree on February 12. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...

Frieda Hughes Biography, Updates, Children, Husband, Poems, Book, Sylvia Plath - Kemi Filani News Frieda Hughes Biography, Updates, Children, Husband, Poems, Book, Sylvia Plath - Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) is an English-Australian poet, painter, children's author, illustrator, and e...

A Frieda Hughes update www.kemifilani.ng/breaking-new...

William Faulkner Day by Day William Faulkner has been the topic of numerous biographies, papers, and international attention. Yet there are no collected resources providing a comprehensive scope of Faulkner’s life and work befor...

January 29, 1958: Works on Chapter 3 of The Mansion.
President Darden of the University of Virginia rejects the proposal that Faulkner be appointed a permanent member of the faculty. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Will...

January 29, 1947: Calls basketball her “favorite sport. It is so exciting when the ball teeters breathlessly on the edge of the basket!”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylvia-Plath-Day-by-Day-Volume-1

1/29/90: “…50 years since Ronald Colman…clapped his eyes on the Ojai Valley…Vista Point…trash can was overflowing and a power line obscured the view. But…easy to understand that Shangri-La is not so much one view as many.” “Shangri-La, The American Way” Newsday

Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1 Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in...

1/26/53: Thinks of graduate school in philosophy or psychology or employment in publishing, or in an office, or a Fulbright to England, a year of graduate school perhaps at Columbia, Radcliffe, or Johns Hopkins, a job, marriage www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Sylv...

1/ 26/55, Jean Stein noted their discussion her coming for a weekend in Oxford. She teased him about his servants. Wouldn’t they be upset? He seemed almost angry when he said: “I wouldn’t have any Nigras that I couldn’t control.”https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/Faulkner-On-and-Off-the-Page

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Los Angeles Examiner (January 26, 1925): “The shadings of emotion, the assumption of a varied and brilliant range of characterizations and sincerity and conviction in every move place Colman high in the site of dramatic figures in the cinema world.”
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January 25, 1981: “There’s still a nostalgia for charm and gentleness with fortitude, and Colman maintains it well.” (Norman K. Dorn, “Colman’s Touch in Classic Roles,” San Francisco Examiner). www.amazon.com/Ronald-Colma...

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January 25, 1945: Writes to Joe C. Brown, an African American school teacher, mentioning their talk three years earlier in front of Neilson’s store on the Oxford Square and his disappointment that Brown has not sent him his poetry. www.amazon.com/William-Faul...