Men Working by John Faulkner, 1941
First Edition (Stated) by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1941
First published novel by John Faulkner, younger brother of William Faulkner, the depression-era tale of Mississippi tenant farmers. A satirical narrative with strains of macabre humor and compassionate realism about displaced North Mississippi hill types on W.P.A., drawn from the author s experience in Beat Two (autonomous Mississippi county political unit) and in Oxford, Mississippi (Studies in Bibliography, vol. 23 (1970), pp. 217-29) N.B.
John Faulkner (1901 - 1963) was an American writer. His works, depict life in Mississippi. Faulkner is best-remembered for the novels Men Working (1941) and Dollar Cotton (1942), and the memoir, My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence (1963), about his elder sibling, author William Faulkner.
John Faulkner was also an accomplished, self-taught painter. He did a series of paintings known as The Vanishing South and wrote a short paragraph to describe each one.

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