I hope you will keep on saying it, but I hope you will say it as an artist, as in Native Son. So Faulkner's objection is on the other side.

希望你会继续讲下去，但要以艺术家的身份讲下去，就像在《土生子》里面那样”

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So he had published Native Son in 1940 to great acclaim, a very successful novel.

他在1940年出版了《土生子》，广受好评，是一部很成功的小说。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选