The sounding sea, and other poems

Faulkner's numerous works include The Marble Faun (1924), Soldier's Pay (1926), Sartoris (1929), The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1933), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), The Hamlet (1940), Requiem for a Nun (1951), and The Reivers (1962). Frederick Faust (1892–1944) Faust was born in Seattle, Washington, and died in Italy while working as a war correspondent for Harper's. His Western novels (Destry Rides Again [1930]; Singing Guns [1938]; Danger Trail [1940]) were written under the pseudonym Max Brand. As Walter C. Butler he wrote crime fiction, and under his own name he published spy novels. -775- Other works of his include a volume of poetry (The Village Street and Other Poems [1922]) and Calling Dr. Kildare (1940). Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis) (1811-72) Willis, best known under her pen name of Fanny Fern, was born in Portland, Maine, but was raised in the Boston area and attended Catharine Beecher's school in Hartford, Connecticut. Her first marriage, to Charles H. Eldredge (1837), appears to have been a happy one, but his death in 1846 left her with two children to support, which she attempted to do first through teaching and needlework, and then through the satirical essays (collected in Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio [1853, 1854]) that eventually brought her fame and fortune as a newspaper columnist ...»