William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios

A scholarly examination of the scripts and fiction Faulkner created during his foray as a Hollywood screenwriter.

During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked on approximately fifty screenplays for major Hollywood studios and was credited on such classics as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. Faulkner's film scripts—and later television scripts—constitute an extensive and, until now, thoroughly underexplored archival source. Stefan Solomon analyzes the majority of ...