Books by Ahmed Honeini
Ahmed Honeini is an Honorary Research Associate in American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound (2021) and Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles (2025). He is the founder of the Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network and currently the co-Associate Editor of the Journal of American Studies. He is currently in the early stages of work on his third monograph, tentatively titled James Baldwin, Drama, and the Politics of Sacrifice.
Interviews with Ahmed Honeini
The Best Tennessee Williams Books, recommended by Ahmed Honeini
Tennessee Williams was a giant of 20th-century American theatre, explains literary scholar Ahmed Honeini, whose new book unpicks Williams’ preoccupation with domestic family drama. Here, Honeini selects five key books—landmark plays, personal memoirs and an influential biography—that illuminate the life of the great playwright.
The Best William Faulkner Books, recommended by Ahmed Honeini
Where to start with the novels of the American writer William Faulkner, chronicler of the Old South and winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature? Here, Faulkner scholar Ahmed Honeini of Royal Holloway, University of London, recommends the best books by and about the man who tried to capture “the agony and sweat of the human spirit”.
