The Welty at Home Virtual Book Club will kick off the new year on January 31 with an eight-week discussion of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. The hour-long weekly sessions will be held Mondays at 12 noon CST, skipping President’s Day, February 21.
Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, will lead four of the programs. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Georgia and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He joined the English department at Ole Miss in 1989, was promoted to Professor of English in 20
Suzanne Marrs, Millsaps College professor emerita of English, and Eudora Welty’s biographer
and friend, will lead four of the sessions. Marrs completed her college studies at the University of Oklahoma, including the Ph. D. in English and American Literature. She is Scholar-in-Residence for the Eudora Welty Foundation.
If you have previously participated in a Welty at Home Book Club, you should have the Zoom link. New participants should register by email at info@eudoraweltyhouse.com.
Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is told by three brothers of the once prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi, as they remember their sister Caddy. Their reminiscences occur at different times and in different voices, and the author’s own narrative voice recounts one of the four parts of the unconventional book. Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949.