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To: jbe who wrote (1579)	11/13/1999 9:28:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 3246

I'm not a big Faulkner fan, either. I've only read "As I Lay Dying". I read that while I lay convalescing, sheesh. Alcohol and writing do seem to go hand in hand, don't they? The list of great American writers who were not alcoholic seems shorter than the the list of alcoholics. Why is Faulkner great? I must confess I am only echoing sentiments expressed by the great Shelby Foote. I had not given Faulkner much thought until I heard him say in an interview that Faulkner was not only the best American writer of the 20th century, but was almost Shakespearean in his influence over all of literature. I suppose we should keep in mind that Shelby Foote is a Southern partisan and may be prone to hyperbole on certain topics.

To: jbe who wrote (1579)	11/13/1999 9:56:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 3246

Re: Mayne Reid REID, [Thomas} Mayne (1818-83), Irish-born novelist, came to the U.S. (1840), where he had a varied career as journalist, storekeeper, Negro overseer, schoolmaster, captain in the Mexican War, actor, dramatist, Indian fighter, and frontier hunter. He returned to England (1850), and was in America again only from 1867 to 1870, but during his years in the U.S. he knew not only the East but also the South, the prairies, and the Western frontier. He wrote a long series of romances, whose exciting adventures endeared him to millions of boys, and whose descriptions of the Southern and Western U.S. made him a prominent foreign follower of Cooper in depicting pioneer customs and the life of the Indians. His bibliography includes more than 90 titles, nearly 70 of which are stories of romance and adventure, and many of them concerned with the American scene. Among the most popular were The Rifle Rangers (1850), The Scalp Hunters (1851), and The Boy Hunters (1852). One of his plays, The Quadroon (1856), was the basis of Boucicault's The Octaroon. Taken from The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart. 3rd edition, 1956. I had not heard of this guy until this morning. I think I'd like to check out some his stuff!