Lisa C. Hickman

“Between Grief and Nothing . . . is a worthy addition to the study of all things Faulkner. It connects dots, provides depth and shading to a complex life.

Hickman’s book does something else — and it’s a good thing. It makes you marvel, more than ever, at how such a troubled soul wrote so much, and so well, for so long — the best body of work, surely, in American literary history.”—David Wesley Williams, Chapter 16, The [Memphis] Commercial Appeal, Nashville Scene, Chattanooga Times Free Press

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Author and Faulkner scholar Lisa C. Hickman offers fresh insight and new research into his tormented genius. Between Grief and Nothing: The Passions, Addictions and Tragic End of William Faulkner is a swift moving narrative that unravels a complicated story of time and place, unaddressed mental issues, and Faulkner’s death in a Mississippi Sanatorium. Other books include William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers, with correspondence between Faulkner and Williams and a foreword by novelist Richard Bausch; Stranger to the Truth, a narrative nonfiction account of a high-profile Memphis matricide case; and editor of Remembering: Joan Williams’ Uncollected Pieces.

“One Fifth Avenue: William Faulkner Romances Manhattan . . . and Joan Williams”--a selected paper for “William Faulkner’s New York” at the Modern Language Association--Los Angeles Review of Books articles, “The Road to Glory: Faulkner’s Hollywood Years, 1932-1936” and the profile “Tiger Lady: On Joan Williams”--are among her noteworthy Faulkner-Williams contributions.

Hickman’s writing and scholarship have appeared in The Mississippi Encyclopedia, The Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Writers Page, Housman Society Journal, Teaching Faulkner, The Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review, Des Moines Sunday Register, Memphis Magazine and Memphis Flyer and others. She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Mississippi with a concentration in Faulkner and Southern literature and her Master of Arts in American literature from Drake University.