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Every day by the sun, a memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi, Dean Faulkner Wells

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Every day by the sun, a memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi, Dean Faulkner Wells

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsgenealogical tablesplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Every day by the sun

Oclc number

644688710

Responsibility statement

Dean Faulkner Wells

Sub title

a memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi

Summary

In this book the author recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel prize winner, arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family, in particular her uncle William or Pappy with whom she shared colorful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. This memoir explores the close relationship between Dean's uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty eight during an air show four months before she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean's tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life. From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulkner's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962, this work explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, Mississippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure. -- From Book jacket

Table Of Contents

Faulkner Family tree -- Butler Family tree -- My father's death -- Second coming -- Ancestors -- My father's world -- Count no 'count -- Two brothers -- The Waco -- World War II -- Wese and Jimmy -- Jill -- Cho Cho and Vicki -- Nobel Prize -- Pulitzer Prize -- Faulkners and race -- The women Pappy loved -- Postcard from Paris -- A wedding -- My last year at home -- Pappy's funeral

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