Novelist William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He spent much of his youth in Oxford where his father was employed as the secretary and then business manager for the University of Mississippi. The past is never dead. It’s not even past. From Requiem for a Nun, Act I, Scene III, by William Faulkner Portrait of William Faulkner. Carl Van Vechten, photographer, D
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