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August 1999
The 26th Annual Faulkner
and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "Faulkner and Postmodernism," has
ended. Winning this year's "Faux Faulkner" contest was "Where the
Southern Crosses the Dog," by Samuel Tumey, a lawyer from Liberty,
Mississippi, who had previously won the contest in 1994. His entry, a 500-word
sentence written in imitation of Faulkner’s unique writing style, tells about a
unique railroad crossing where two rail lines cross each other at an angle. An
article about this year's contest is available online at CNN.com. You can also
read the winning entry online.
Mississippi Writer Willie Morris dies
Willie Morris, a writer and former editor
of Harper’s Magazine, died August 2, 1999, in Jackson, Mississippi,
following a heart attack. Morris's books include North Toward Home, Terrains
of the Heart and Other Stories of Home, and New York Days, which
describes his years in New York City as the youngest editor of the nation's
oldest magazine. With fellow Mississippi writer Shelby
Foote, Morris was on hand in September 1997 to dedicate a bronze statue of
William Faulkner in front of City Hall in Faulkner’s hometown, Oxford,
Mississippi. For more information about Morris, you may access the
article about him in The
Mississippi Writers Page.
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