Carl Rollyson is a biographer of Sylvia Plath, the author of Making the American Presidency: How Biographers Shape History and has also published A Private Life of Michael Foot, Confessions of a Serial Biographer, as well as unauthorized biographies of Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, and Susan Sontag while they were still alive.
For Faulkner, all of time existed as a moment, during which all could be changed: past, present, and future.
Plath felt that marriage and children were the necessary but insufficient condition of her continued creativity.
In spite of many differences, Trump like Washington has become a providential president.
The stage set becomes, in effect, a metaphor for the way individuality has been crushed in the modern world.
Faulkner’s treatment of the past means much for the nature of our future.