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.
The conflict between biographers and their living subjects can turn deadly.
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.