Carl Rollyson, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Carl Rollyson

Carl Rollyson holds a Ph.D from the University of Toronto and has published more than forty books, including biographies, studies of American culture, genealogy, children’s biography, film, and literary criticism. He has also authored more than 500 essasy on American and European literature and history. His work has been reviewed in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Sunday Telegraph, TLS and in journals such as American Literature and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Old Rowan Oak: William Faulkner’s Conservatism

By Carl Rollyson|2021-09-24T15:42:10-05:00September 24th, 2021|Categories: Books, Conservatism, Literature, South, Timeless Essays|

Russell Kirk’s Ten Conservative Principles reflect the way William Faulkner wrote, acted, and organized his life. As a property owner with notions of limited government, he brought that orientation to his fiction, to his work in Hollywood, to his commentary on civil rights, and to his everyday relationships with his family and community. His conservatism [...]