Falkner's shadow: Pylon, 1935
Transcendental homelessness: Absalom, Absalom!, December 1935-October 1936
The dividing line: October 1936-February 1938
Grief: February 1938-January 1939
Up from feudalism: The Hamlet, 1938-1940
Was: Go Down, Moses, 1940-1942
Soldiering on: July 1942-January 1943
Yoknapatawpha Comes to Hollywood: January-August 1943
Fables of fascism: To Have and Have Not, August 1943-May 1944
Hollywoodism: May-December 1944
Hollywood and horror, home and horses: December 1944-September 1945
"A golden book": The Portable Faulkner, September 1945-April 1946
impasse: June 1946-December 1947
New audiences: Intruder in the Dust, January 1948-October 1949
Coded autobiography: Knight's Gambit, November 1948-November 1949
Acclaim and fame and love: 1950-1955
What mad pursuit: August 1949-March 1954
Two lives/two Faulkners: 1949-1951
In and out of phase: August 1951-January 1953
Steal away: January-December 1953
Civilization and its discontents: December 1953-January 1955
Ambassador Faulkner: June 1954-January 1955
Past and present: February-August 1955
East and west: August-October 1955
North and south: September 1955-spring 1957
Going on: January 1956-May 1957
Writer-in-residence: October 1956-January 1959
Full circle: January-November 1959
End of days: June-July 1962.