Talking About William Faulkner
Wolff, Sally / Watkins, Floyd C.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins, both of Emory University, took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi, to explore the region where William Faulkner lived. They visited Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, trekked around the countryside, and met people who were the prototypes for some of his characters. During these excursions, they discovered firsthand how profoundly Faulkner's...