ABSTRACT
Most people have noticed casually that the hard-boiled school of younger novelists has been getting distinguished recruits from the South. But possibly the full importance of several recent Southern novels is even yet not recognized. As a matter of fact, if Sherwood Anderson's pronounced southern associationsare remembered and The Time of Man and Mosquitoes, it is possible to believe that the best novels of the last two or three years have borne a Southern imprint. This is especially true ofWilliam Faulkner's work. Soldiers' Payand Mosquitoes undoubtedly represent one of the most promising talents for fiction in contemporary America.
