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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 murderers, 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 American novelist
of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully
entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her
family—in particular her uncle William, or “Pappy,” with
whom she shared colorful, sometimes utterly frank,
sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences.
This deeply felt memoir explores the close
relationship between Dean’s uncle and her father, Dean
Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight
during an air show four months before she was born. It was
William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after
Dean’s 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 Faulkner’s 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, Mississippi, while
offering a rare glimpse of a notoriously private family and
an indelible portrait of a national treasure.
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