England’s greatest scholar, Samuel Johnson, was born in the Midlands in the cathedral town of Lichfield, Staffordshire, which lay at the crossroads of two major north-south routes: from London up to Liverpool, and from Bristol to Sheffield, Leeds. Though the roads were medieval and dangerous, people still had to travel, and as an important coaching [...]
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Young Faulkner in Paris
William Faulkner was twenty-seven in the summer of 1925 when he decided to join his friend Bill Spratling on a steamship to Europe. Though immersed in literature and committed to writing, he looked much like a shiftless young man, moving about from New Orleans to Pascagoula and Memphis. Gaunt and frequenting bars in the French [...]
Wylie Graham Mclallen 