William Faulkner

American Writer
1897-1962

Map of Yoknapatawpha County
Introduction    

Welcome to Yoknapatawpha County:

County seat Jefferson ... Home to the Compson, Sartoris, Sutpen, Stevens, Coldfield, Benbow, Grierson, Bundren, De Spain, and Snopes families ... Once inhabited, later ceded by the Chickasaw tribe, first settled by Europeans ca. 1811 ... Bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie River, on the south by the Yoknapatawpha River ... Area 2400 square miles ... Population (ca. 1936): Whites, 6298, Negroes, 9313 ... Address of William Faulkner, RAF cadet, Nobel laureate, Sole Owner and Proprietor.

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HEADLINES

May 2009

2009 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference to focus on “Faulkner and ‘Mystery’”

The 36th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will examine the topic ”Faulkner and Mystery” through five days of lectures and discussions by literary scholars and critics. In addition to formal lectures, there will be several shorter panel presentations, guided day-long tours of Northeast Mississippi and the Delta, and sessions on “Teaching Faulkner” by James B. Carothers, University of Kansas, Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College, Charles Peek, University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Theresa Towner, University of Texas at Dallas.

In keeping with the conference theme, there will be a special panel made up of three writers of crime fiction: Ace Atkins, author of nine novels and story collections, including Devil’s Garden and Wicked City, Jere Hoar, author of Body Parts and The Hit, and Daniel Woodrell, author of eight novels, including Give Us a Kiss: A Country Noir and Winter’s Bone.

The conference will take place July 19-23, 2009, at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. For more information, or to register for the conference, visit the official conference web site: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner.

Faulkner Society, E-mail discussion list information

The William Faulkner Society sponsors several scholarly presentations at the annual American Literature Conference in May and the Modern Language Association Conference in December. The society also sponsors other professional and financial incentives for scholars and graduate students. For more information, visit the society's website, faulknersociety.com.

Both scholars and non-scholars are invited to join the Faulkner Discussion Listserv by sending the message “subscribe faulkner” to md@listserv.olemiss.edu. For more information about the list, send the message “info faulkner” to the same address.

Faulkner dissertation on ‘War and History’ available

My doctoral dissertation, War and History in the Fiction of William Faulkner, is available for download or purchase online from Proquest.com. Click here to read the abstract and a free 24-page preview or to purchase a print or electronic version.

Questions about Faulkner's literary estate should be directed to Lee Caplin

If you have any questions regarding the licensing of Faulkner’s work for stage, screen, or any other commercial endeavor, you should contact Lee Caplin, the exclusive representative of the Faulkner literary estate. Caplin's website at www.pictureentertainment.com includes numerous ways in which to get in touch.

Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Speech

The following video includes audio of Faulkner delivering his speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony in December 1950. It differs slightly from the version of the speech he recorded in a studio for HarperAudio some time later (and which is available online here). The audio ends a few moments before the end of the speech, but it is nonetheless a fascinating aural glimpse of the actual ceremony. For text of the speech and more video, visit the Nobel Prize page on this site.


“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

—Gavin Stevens

Act I, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun

Use the Faulkner QuickLink drop-down menu to go immediately to  information on a specific work. Or browse the categories below.

The Library The Library

Commentaries, plot synopses, and links to additional information about Faulkner’s written works

  Novels  ->Short Stories  ->Poetry
  ->Essays & Speeches ->Letters ->All Writings
 
Sole Owner & Proprietor
 Sole Owner & Proprietor

The life of William Faulkner

  *Biography *Chronology *FAQ
  *Published Biographies *Family Tree *Faulkner Home
 
The Town
 The Town

Information about his adopted hometown, Oxford, Mississippi

  ->Oxford Faulkner Sites Map ->Lafayette County Map ->Oxford City Web Site
 
The MovingPicture House The MovingPicture House

Faulkner on stage and screen

  Faulkner’s Screenplays Film Adaptations  
 
The Playroom The Play Room

The lighter side of Faulkner

  *Faux Faulkner *Trivia *Quotes Quizzes
 
The Carriage House The Carriage House

Links to other Faulkner-related sites

  *Academic *Stage and Screen *Books & Collections
  *Pop Culture *History & Home  
 
Additional Resources Faulkner Resources

A compendium of scholarly information

  ->Timeline ->Glossary ->Additional Resources
  ->Bibliographies ->Biographies ->Genealogical Charts

Other Selected Faulkner
 Web Sites & Resources

The Mississippi Writers Page: William Faulkner (University of Mississippi Department of English)

The William Faulkner Foundation (Rennes University, Rennes, France)

The Center for Faulkner Studies (Southeast Missouri State University)
Includes online exhibits from the Brodsky Faulkner Collection and the Teaching Faulkner Newsletter

The William Faulkner Society (maintained by Society President John T. Matthews)
Includes membership information, announcements and calls for papers

The William Faulkner Society of Japan
Includes membership information, announcements and calls for papers, convention information, and the online Faulkner Journal of Japan

The Faulkner Journal (The University of Central Florida)
Includes subscription and submission information, current and back issue tables of contents, news and announcements

The Faulkner Email Discussion Group is open to students, scholars, and general readers of Faulkner. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe faulkner" to md@listserv.olemiss.edu.

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (Office of Outreach and Continuing Education, University of Mississippi)
Information about each year’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference.

The William Faulkner Collections (Special Collections at University of Virginia Library)

The William Faulkner Collection/Rowan Oak Papers (Special Collections at University of Mississippi Library). Includes a brief history of the Ole Miss Faulkner Collection and an inventory of the so-called "Rowan Oak Papers," discovered in a broom closet beneath a stairway in Faulkner’s home in Oxford.

(See "The Carriage House" for more Faulkner-related web sites.)

... And a few Miscellaneous Links

Light Rain in August:
Weather forecast for Yoknapatawpha County

As They Die Lying:
Ongoing web murder investigations by the "Yoknapatawpha County Law Enforcement Division."

The Wild Yarns: The Urban Legends Reference Pages, named for a family in Faulkner’s fiction, www.snopes.com.
 

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