I loved 'Stoner', but wished I could also have read the story from the perspective of Stoner's wife (Edith). We see her as she appeared to Stoner, and it would

I loved 'Stoner', but wished I could also have read the story from the perspective of Stoner's wife (Edith). We see her as she appeared to Stoner, and it would be easy to write her off with adjectives like uptight, frigid, damaged, belligerent; but from the outside it would probably have been easy to write Stoner off as an inattentive, unfaithful husband pouring his life into profoundly unimportant work and going through an undignified mid-life crisis -- or something similarly reductionist and dehumanising. I bet Edith's inner life was at least as vivid as his, and whether or not her behaviour could be rationalised, her pain was certainly just as real as his. That's part of the genius of the book, though -- Williams shows us enough, and paints even the somewhat neglected characters richly enough, to stimulate these thoughts. Anyway, this is an interesting interview, but (fortunately for everyone concerned) it gives the impression that Stoner and Edith were not modeled as closely on John and Nancy Williams as I might have guessed. So the title is a bit misleading.