A vivid portrait of the writers, artists, and eccentrics who made the New Orleans French Quarter a thriving bohemia in the years following World War I.
In the 1920s, Jackson Square became the unlikely center of a short-lived but dazzling artistic scene, home to a young William Faulkner, his roommate and Tulane instructor William Spratling, and a cast of characters ranging from Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer. John Shelton Reed traces this world through Faulkner and Spratling's self-published Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, using its 43 sketches as a window into the cafes, masked balls, and literary clubs that defined the era and into the gentrification that ultimately drove the artists out.
- John Shelton Reed, Author
- Published in 2012
- Paperback
- Published by LSU Press
- ISBN: 9780807156100
A vivid portrait of the writers, artists, and eccentrics who made the New Orleans French Quarter a thriving bohemia in the years following World War I.
In the 1920s, Jackson Square became the unlikely center of a short-lived but dazzling artistic scene, home to a young William Faulkner, his roommate and Tulane instructor William Spratling, and a cast of characters ranging from Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer. John Shelton Reed traces this world through Faulkner and Spratling's self-published Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, using its 43 sketches as a window into the cafes, masked balls, and literary clubs that defined the era and into the gentrification that ultimately drove the artists out.
- John Shelton Reed, Author
- Published in 2012
- Paperback
- Published by LSU Press
- ISBN: 9780807156100