A Failed Poet In 1924, his friend Phil Stone secured the publication of a volume of Faulkner's poetry, The Marble Faun, by the Four Seas Company. It was published in December 1924 in an edition of 1,000 copies, dedicated to his mother and with a preface by Stone. In January 1925, Faulkner moved to New Orleans and fell in with a literary crowd which included Sherwood Anderson (author of Winesburg, Ohio) and centered around The Double Dealer, a literary …showed first 75 words of 6704 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6704 total…relayed to them a message from the family: "Until he's buried he belongs to the family. After that, he belongs to the world." —John B. Padgett For more information on Faulkner, including commentaries on individual works, family genealogies, a character and place name glossary, bibliographies of criticism, a map and description of Faulkner sites in Oxford, and other information resources, visit William Faulkner on the Web, which is maintained by the author of this article.