Lawrence Wells
Lawrence Wells’s “Ghostwriter” manuscript was awarded the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom Prize for narrative nonfiction at the Words and Music Festival in New Orleans. His memoir In Faulkner’s Shadow, about his thirty-eight-year marriage to Dean Faulkner Wells, niece of William Faulkner, was published by University Press of Mississippi in 2020. Wells is also the author of two historical novels, Rommel and the Rebel and Let the Band Play Dixie. A third novel, Fair Youth, which he ghostwrote for Gertrude C. Ford, is to be published in 2024.
In Faulkner's Shadow
A Memoir
An amusing, honest, and sympathetic account of literary rivalries and family feuds in Faulkner’s hometown
Ghostwriter
Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession
Two people, principal and ghostwriter, collaborate on the controversial story of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and his alleged affair with Queen Elizabeth I.
- Copyright year: 2024