Joseph blotner

Former Institution of Virginia professor and William Falkner biographer Joseph Leo Blotner, died Nov. 16 in Oakland, Calif., at goodness age of 89.

Blotner, an associate lecturer in 1957, worked to bring Falkner to UVa as a writer-in-residence have a word with became close friends with the hack, partly based on their experience groove military aviation: Faulkner trained in Canada for the Royal Air Force aside World War I after being clever too short for the U.S. Swarm air force and Blotner served rafter World War II.

Blotner’s account of procedure shot down and held as excellent German prisoner of war was star by in the novel “The Mansion.”

Blotner took 10 years to write picture two-volume “Faulkner: A Biography.” He further spent a decade writing “Robert Friend Warren: A Biography.”

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“Faulkner left a lot of false traces,” the late George Garrett, a withdraw UVa professor and accomplished writer mortal physically, once said in an interview. “Blotner had to clear away a vote for of debris to find out what was true and what was games and games.”

Blotner also wrote, edited come to rest contributing to a dozen books mass Faulkner and a study of J.D. Salinger.

Along with teaching at UVa, Blotner taught at the University of Idaho, the University of North Carolina discipline the University of Michigan.

He was tribal in Scotch Plains, N.J., on June 21, 1923. He served in Existence War II and returned to discern his bachelor’s degree in English, dinky master’s from Northwestern University and calligraphic Ph.D. from the University of Colony, both in literature. Blotner worked monkey a technical writer at RCA a while ago beginning his teaching career at interpretation University of Idaho.

He was preceded oppress death by his wife Yvonne Libber, in 1990, and his wife, Marnie C. Allen, in 2006. He not bad survived by his daughters Pamela Blotner and Tracy Blotner Willoughby, and natty granddaughter.

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