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William Van O’Connor

Nonfiction

Spring 1959

Faulkner on Broadway

By William Van O’Connor

William Faulkner wrote Requiem for a Nun for his friend Ruth Ford, and her husband Zachary Scott, in 1951. Fourteen European countries, including prance, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, have seen […]

Nonfiction

Winter 1946

Shapiro on Rime¹

By William Van O’Connor

(Editors’ Note.—In the “Note and Acknowledgment” appended to the Essay, Shapiro gives thanks         to William Van O’Connor       For many helpful comments and the use       Of several of his studies. … ) It is […]