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A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
Random House Digital, Inc.
April 2011
On Sale: March 22, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0307591042
EAN: 9780307591043
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murΒderers, 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 AmeriΒcan novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her familyβin particular her uncle William, or βPappy,β with whom she shared colorΒful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. This deeply felt memoir explores the close reΒlationship between Deanβs uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months beΒfore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Deanβs 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 Faulknerβs winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962, Every Day by the Sun explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, MisΒsissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriΒously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.
 Media BuzzOn Point - March 30, 2011
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