William Spratling busted in Italy!
In the course of looking for information about William Spratling I came across “New Information on William Faulkner’s First Trip to Italy” by Massimo Bacigalupo in the Journal of Modern Literature and learned that when Spratling traveled to Italy with Faulkner he was arrested:
William Faulkner’s first day on European soil is the stuff of legend. He and his artist friend William Spratling sailed from New Orleans on the cargo West Ivis and arrived in Genoa, Italy, on 2 August 1925. They went to a nightclub with two of the ship’s officers and at some point there was a brawl and Spratling was arrested and locked up for the night….
It’s a good story. You can read it (it’s not very long) if you download the PDF file here.
Spratling and Faulkner co-authored Sherwood Anderson And Other Famous Creoles, which is available in paperback.
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