Virginia Faulkner

A Life in Two Acts

Brad Bigelow (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2026
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3062-1 (ISBN)

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Featured writer for the Washington Post at twenty. Author of a hit novel at twenty-one. Coaxed Greta Garbo out of seclusion for a Hollywood party. Ghostwrote the memoirs of New York’s most famous madam, Polly Adler. It’s no wonder Virginia Faulkner was spoken of as the next Dorothy Parker.

But Faulkner also struggled with alcoholism and depression, lost respect for her own work as a writer, and at age forty-two returned to her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, unsure what her next move would be. Asked to assemble an anthology to celebrate Nebraska, she joined the University of Nebraska Press and soon found herself fascinated by the challenges of work as an editor. The press, she realized, offered her the opportunity to champion the work of the writer she respected above all others: Willa Cather. And after finding an ideal colleague and life partner in Bernice Slote, Faulkner launched a series of books that helped establish Cather as one of America’s greatest writers.

In Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, Brad Bigelow tells Faulkner’s story-one that’s lively, irreverent, and rich in its commitment to literature of lasting importance. Though her own books have since been forgotten, Faulkner left a legacy of achievement and success in American literature against social and personal odds, and her voice and spirit shine forth in the pages of this book.

Brad Bigelow is a writer, instructor, and editor living in Missoula, Montana. He is the editor of the Recovered Books series for Boiler House Press and has been writer of the Neglected Books website since 2006. With more than six hundred articles, the site celebrates the work of little-known writers.

List of Illustrations
Prologue
Act I: To Bohemia
Chapter 1. The Meyers and the Faulkners
Chapter 2. Ginny and Eddie
Chapter 3. Rome
Chapter 4. Limbo
Chapter 5. Radcliffe
Chapter 6. Washington
Chapter 7. New York City
Chapter 8. Hollywood
Chapter 9. All in Fun
Chapter 10. Dana
Chapter 11. It Takes Two
Chapter 12. The Haven
Chapter 13. A House is Not a Home
Chapter 14. Pacific Grove
Act II: Back to Lincoln
Chapter 15. Roundup
Chapter 16. Hostiles and Friendlies
Chapter 17. Bernice
Chapter 18. The Literature of Possibility
Chapter 19. The Road is All
Chapter 20. “Anniversary”
Chapter 21. The Kingdom of Art
Chapter 22. The World and the Parish
Chapter 23. Willa Cather's Imagination
Chapter 24. The Art of Willa Cather
Chapter 25. Out to the Wind
Chapter 26. Breaking Down
A Note on Sources

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	20 photographs, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-4962-3062-0 / 1496230620
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3062-1 / 9781496230621
Zustand	Neuware