The Portable Faulkner Author:William Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley Edited by Malcolm Crowley. This book is the best comprehensive cross section of Faulkner's writing in one volume. It is in effect a new work: complete episodes selected from six novels, and stories from four volumes, are arranged so as to present an evolving pattern of the people and places he writes about. Faulkner prepared especially for th... more »is book a map of Yoknapatawpha County and has written for it a 20-page selection of biographical notes about his characters, telling much about them that is not told in any of the actual books.« less