An imaginative biography that identifies Faulkner's frequent hardships as central forces in his creative process, Becoming Faulkner provides a fresh perspective on one of America's greatest novelists. In an earlier study, Weinstein offered the lapidary observation that Faulker 'was hurt into greatness.' Becoming Faulkner elaborates powerfully, and often brilliantly, on that claim...Along the way we are treated to breathtaking flashes of insight.