Digital Yoknapatawpha is a group of international Faulkner scholars who have mapped the places, people, and events in the author's mythical Mississippi county.
Joined July 2019
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4/28/54: Sends photos of outline for A Fable on office wall, suggesting they might be reproduced in book. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…; visit his home to see what RH did not publish; more on A Fable: upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/F…; took me 50 years to understand this book
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Join @Wralpheubanks , critic Michael Gorra, and Professor Theresa M. Towner, editor of the recently published LOA edition of Faulkner’s stories, for a provocative conversation on the work of William Faulkner.
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A podcast discussion of my Faulkner biography. Carl Rollyson: The Life of William Faulkner - Biographers in Conversation biographersinconversation.co…
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@WatkinsMassey and I will co-lead the DY session at this year's SSSL Conference on Sunday, June 23 as part of a longer workshop on teaching Southern literature (that will also count toward CEU credit). The workshop starts at 1 p.m., so don't delay registering for the conference.
REGISTER NOW for the 2024 SSSL Conference on the theme "Reconstruction(s)" which will take place virtually and on location in Gulfport, Mississippi June 23-26. On the first day, DY collaborators will present a workshop on using DY in the classroom. southernlit.org/conference/
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"Our history .... it's almost like it was just wiped away, a clean slate. Nobody talked about us. Nobody heard about us and knew about us," says Willis. "The university needs to reckon with the fact that we were there.”
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On Thursday, I will be giving a lecture at the Mississippi Historical Society, which I have titled "Black Power and Mississippi's Beautiful Bluessong," on the 1970 Fulton Chapel protest.
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For anyone who missed this last night, please dig this photo of Tracy Chapman, Alice Walker, and a UM student outside William Faulkner's home in 1994.
Images like this from @smithers_nc make twitter still worth it!
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September 17, 1924: Authorizes Phil Stone to wire Four Seas Company that the author “TELLS ME TO AUTHORIZE YOU TO USE ANY FACTS REAL OR IMAGINATORY THAT YOU DESIRE TO USE IN THE BOOK OR ADVERTISING MATTER.” upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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9/4/47: Sent the wrong pipe: “too many pipes to sell to too many people to pay too much tax to support too much government which we really can no longer afford: to pay for which people have to make too many pipes to sell to too many people, etc.”upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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August 15, 1946: Publishes letter, “His Name Was Pete,” in Oxford Eagle describing his daughter Jill’s dog run over by a motorcar. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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August 13, 1942: Completes 39 page treatment of The De Gaulle Story. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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I am in utter shock to learn that my friend and colleague, John Lowe, has passed. How fragile we are. So much loss. So much loss. Such a fine scholar; such a beautiful, kind, and generous soul. We give thanks for all you gave us, dear John & will miss you dearly. Rest in Peace. – at Charlottesville, VA
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We are proud to present a Call for Panelists for next year's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, for a session entitled "Go Slow Now, or A Dream Deferred:
William Faulkner and Civil Rights." Full details in the image below. Deadline Dec 1st, 2023. Please RT and share widely!
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August 4: In Japan: Conducts four 45 minute interviews mentioning his rudimentary understanding of Japanese literature and his relations with writers like Gide, Sartre, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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August 2, 1954: Random House publishes A Fable. Newsweek publishes a WF photograph on its cover and a review of A Fable but includes no profile since he refuses to cooperate with the reporter sent to interview him. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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August 1, 1936: Reports for work at Fox at $750 a week. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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July 26, 1932: Put on the MGM payroll at $250 a week. Works on “Turn About” screenplay, based on his short story, which is eventually produced as Today We Live with Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, and Joan Crawford. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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July 27, 1942: Reports to Warner Brothers lot as part of a seven-year contract, beginning at $300 a week. He stays at the Highland Hotel, close to Hollywood Boulevard. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
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We're so happy to be back at the #Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference! If you're attending this week, please come see us and check out some great books! upress.state.ms.us/Collectio…
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7/ 24/34: Arrives in Memphis with Richard Halliburton, a fellow Southerner & travel writer, who comments to reporters: “I’ve wanted to meet Bill Faulkner most, not only because I liked his books, but because to me he’s a home boy…I liked him immensely.”upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…