Thread: Literary Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
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Old 02-08-2020, 09:33 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by astrangerhere View Post
A 1977 journal article credits Crome Yellow as the inspiration for William Faulkner's Mosquitos, which was published 5 years later. I have included a snip of the article below. I wrote my thesis on Faulkner back before I went to law school, so I apprecaited this. The cite for the article, for anyone who has JStor access is:

Faulkner and Huxley: A Note On "Mosquitoes" And "Crome Yellow"
EDWIN T. ARNOLD III
The Mississippi Quarterly
Vol. 30, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: WILLIAM FAULKNER (Summer 1977), pp. 433-436
Thank you for sharing this information. I am not familiar with Mosquitoes but do enjoy Faulkner and now have added it to my TBR.
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