William Faulkner, These 13

Thomas Dasher (Berry College)

Ed. by Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1931

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

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William Faulkner’s first collection of short fiction,

These 13

, was published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith on 21 September 1931 (Blotner, 276, 282), and was dedicated to his wife Estelle and their infant daughter Alabama who had died soon after her birth earlier the same year (Luscher, 398).

Composition and Publication

Composition and Publication

As early as February 1927, Faulkner had written to Horace Liveright, publisher of his first two novels, that he was working on “a collection of short stories about my townspeople . . . supplemented by others of different subject matter” (Faulkner, Letters, 34-35). Originally titled A Rose for Emily and Other Stories, the book was not published, however, until four years later (Luscher, 398). “[T]he first of his books to be brought out

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Citation: Dasher, Thomas. "These 13". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 August 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8271, accessed 23 November 2024.]