University of Virginia Library

I. Published Works

A. Novels

• 1. Men Working. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. Satirical narrative with strains of macabre humor and compassionate realism about displaced North Mississippi hill types on W. P. A., drawn from the author's experience in Beat Two and in Oxford.
• 2. Dollar Cotton. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Naturalistic narrative of Otis Town (e), a hillman removed to the Delta, his rise and his fall as a speculator on the land in the early years of the twentieth century.
• 2 a. Algodón de a Dolar. Versión castellana de Leon Mirlas. Buenos Aires: Editorial Poseidón, 1943.
• 2 b. L'Or Blanc du Delta. Tr. de P. Deschamps. Paris: B. Arthaud, 1949.
• 2 c. Plantáznic Town. Prelozil Pal'o Orth. Bratislava: Tatran, 1949.
• 2 d. Dollar Cotton. Bern: Verlag Hallwag, n.d.
• 2 e. Dollar Cotton. New York: Bantam Books, 1952, 1966.
• 3. Chooky. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1950. Loosely related tales of boyhood in Oxford, drawn from the experience of the author and his brothers and from that of the author's sons, the nickname of the younger having been appropriated as the title of the book.
• 4. Cabin Road. A Gold Medal Original. New York: Gold Medal Books; Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1951. Humorous tale of the efforts of "the government man" to deliver a Federal Government check for the land of a North Mississippi hillman and of the peculiar doings of an area drawn from Beat Two of Lafayette County.
• 5. Uncle Good's Girls. A Gold Medal Original. New York: Gold Medal Books; Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1952. The second of the humorous tales of Beat Two, centering on the election of the Supervisor.
• 6. The Sin Shouter of Cabin Road. An Original Gold Medal Novel. Greenwich, Connecticut: Gold Medal Books; Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1955. The third of the Beat Two series, centering on a brush-arbor religious service.
• 7. Ain't Gonna Rain No More. An Original Gold Medal Novel. Greenwich, Connecticut: Gold Medal Books; Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1959. The fourth of the Beat Two series, dealing with an horrendous drought and bringing the comic confrontation of the natives and the Government to a climax of mutual incomprehension and frustration.

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• 8. Uncle Good's Week-End Party. An Original Gold Medal Novel. Greenwich, Connecticut: Gold Medal Books; Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1960. The fifth of the Beat Two series, concerning a treasure hunt which brings elements of the town into comic contact with the natives.

B. Short Stories

• 1. "Progress Report," Collier's, CVII (June 14, 1941), 18. A tale of Beat Two types on W. P. A.
• 2. "Success," Mississippi Literary Review, I (November, 1941), 16-17. The just deserts of a war profiteer. Reprinted in "Rich's Book Album" (a supplement in the Atlanta Journal for November 29, 1942), p. 12.
• 3. "Lawd! Lawd!" Collier's, CX (October 10, 1942), 62-65. Domestic contretemps involving Henry Moore, who is autobiographical.
• 4. "Good Neighbors," Collier's, CX (November 7, 1942), 17. Uncle Pete, a Beat Two type, brings in two dangerous boys the revenuers cannot handle.
• 5. "Treasure Trail," Collier's, CXI (March 6, 1943), 60. Mexican dialect tale about a treasure hunt that gets nowhere.
• 6. "Lana," Madison County Herald (Canton, Mississippi), December 20, 1962, p. 35. Sentimental tale about a hunting dog, accompanied by a cut of John Faulkner's painting "Going Home in the Rain."
• 7. "Hill Justice," Hitchcock's Magazine, VIII (February, 1963), 36-49. Tough tale of Beat Two desperadoes.

C. Nonfiction (books)

• 1. My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Remembrance. New York: Trident Press, 1963. Recollections of the late William Faulkner.
• 1 a. My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Remembrance. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1964.
• 1 b. My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Remembrance. New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1964.
• 1 c. Mein Bruder Bill, Eine Biographie. Deutsch von Elisabeth Schnack. Zurich: Fretz und Wasmuth Verlag, 1966.
• 1 d. My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Remembrance. Tr. Ryoichi Sato. Tokyo: Arachi Publishing Co., n.d.

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D. Nonfiction (articles)

• 1. "The Old Church," Oxford, Mississippi, Eagle, February 21, 1941. Nostalgic feature about a local building.
• 2. "This Business of Writing," "Rich's Book Album" (a supplement in the Atlanta Journal for November 30, 1941), pp. 4, 21. Dry account of William Faulkner's advice to John Faulkner on how to get about in New York and of the latter's first trip there to see his publisher.
• 3. A review of Mud on the Stars, by William Bradford Huie, in New Republic, CVII (August 3, 1942), 149.
• 4. "The American People," Tomorrow, II (December, 1942), 9-10. Patriotic essay.
• 5. ". . . In the Deep South," The Chicago Sun Book Week, December 6, 1942, p. 5. Short contribution to feature on Christmas in different regions.
• 6. "Pioneer Women," Oxford, Mississippi, Eagle, December 21, 1950, Section 4, [p. 25]. Tribute to wives of men at an army school at the University of Mississippi during World War II.
• 7. "Second Christmas," Oxford, Mississippi, Eagle, December 21, 1950, Section 4, [p. 25]. Anecdote about a Negro yard boy who keeps fire burning for son of a white family who is away in World War II.
• 8. "Of Gracious Living," Saturday Review of Literature, XXXIV (October 6, 1951), 32, 47. A review of The Pavilion, by Stark Young.
• 9. "How Much Hate There Is Now!" Saturday Evening Post, CCXXXV (November 10, 1962), 24-25. On reaction of Oxford to rioting at the University of Mississippi.
• 10. "The Human Side of Faulkner," Famous Writers Magazine, II (Spring, 1964), 7, 10, 41, 48. Excerpt from My Brother Bill.

E. Reproductions of Paintings

• 1. Reproduction of John Faulkner's watercolor, "Carnival Time: Balloon Ascension," illustrating Murry Falkner, "The Day the Balloon Came to Town," American Heritage, XVII (December, 1965), 46-49.