William Faulkner told all sorts of tall tales about his life and work. During World War I he enlisted in the Royal Air Force in Toronto (having given his birthplace as Middlesex, England). He returned ...

William Faulkner, the bard of segregated Mississippi, once wrote: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” How true that is. Faulkner has been dead for 56 years, but thanks to Senator Cindy ...

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi church where William Faulkner was married nearly a century ago has been heavily damaged in a fire. College Hill Presbyterian Church, northwest of Oxford, caught ...

Mississippi authors have long stood their ground in the South’s competitive literary landscape. William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in 1949 for his textured examination of aristocratic decay in ...

OXFORD, Miss. -- Dean Faulkner Wells, the niece of author William Faulkner, has died at a Mississippi hospital from complications of a stroke. She was 75. Her husband, Larry Wells, says his wife ...

NEW ALBANY, Mississippi -- The William Faulkner Literary Committee has selected Pascagoula native Martin Hegwood as the 2022 winner of the Novel Category for his manuscript titled Memphis. Hegwood’s ...

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JACKSON, Mississippi -- Manuscripts and personal letters of the late William Faulkner, whose original writings are a rarity in the literary marketplace, can be viewed Wednesday at Sotheby's in New ...

Editor’s note: “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” These words, often attributed to William Faulkner, “have become the mantra of every writer who works ...

OXFORD, Miss. — The Mississippi church where William Faulkner was married nearly a century ago has been heavily damaged in a fire. College Hill Presbyterian Church, northwest of Oxford, caught fire ...