Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles - Hardcover

Spratling, William; Faulkner, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1258914549 ISBN 13: 9781258914547

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013

Synopsis

This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Get lost in the 1920s of New Orleans with caricatures of famous creative individuals who lived in the French Quarter. This curious parody of Miguel Covarrubias’s The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans features prominent characters in New Orleans as depicted by famed silver designer William Spratling. It also includes a foreword in the style of Sherwood Anderson by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner, who captioned and arranged the drawings for the original release. In this updated edition of the classic by the original publisher, Faulkner’s and Spratling’s collaboration comes to life with additional commentary by art historian Judith H. Bonner and literary scholar Thomas Bonner, Jr.

A New York-born artist and silverworker, William Spratling taught architecture at Tulane University before moving to Taxco, Mexico in 1929, where he was instrumental in reestablishing the Mexican silver-arts industry and creating a model for handwrought industries across the world. While in New Orleans, he became a member of the Arts and Crafts Club in the French Quarter—where he met Faulkner—and taught at the New Orleans Art School. He died in Mexico in 1967 after producing other books, including Little Mexico, with artist Diego Rivera.

An icon of American literature, William Faulkner wrote nineteen novels, including As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury. He won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Nobel Prize. His Nobel Prize acceptance speech, delivered in 1950 in Stockholm, is one of the most quoted literary speeches of all time.

Dr. Thomas Bonner, Jr. is a professor emeritus at Xavier University of Louisiana, where he has taught since 1971.

Judith H. Bonner is senior curator and curator of art at The Historic New Orleans Collection, where she has worked since 1987.

From the Back Cover:

Newly released by the original publisher with new commentary!

The inhabitants of the French Quarter in the 1920s were a curious bunch indeed. Educator and silver artist William Spratling’s illustrations of these “famous” people reveal the Quarter’s character by focusing on its faces rather than its cafés and balconies. We meet artists, writers, and total strangers, all rendered with specificity and verve. This historic volume was arranged by and features an original foreword from a young William Faulkner, during his years in the Vieux Carré living among artists years before The Sound and the Fury and decades before his Nobel Prize. Spratling was one of these artists, and his illustrations―collected in this, the first book published by the fledging publishing house that became Pelican Publishing Company―serve as humorous gateways into their world.

Judith H. Bonner is the author of numerous scholarly articles and catalogs on Southern art and art criticism. Her husband, Dr. Thomas Bonner, Jr., specializes in the study of American and Southern literature, particularly that of William Faulkner, with books and articles on Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, and other writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1258914549
• ISBN 13: 9781258914547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 74