Every Day by the Sun A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi

by FAULKNER WELLS, DEAN

• ISBN13: 9780307591050
• ISBN10: 0307591050
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-21
• Publisher: Crown

Summary

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 mur#xAD;derers, 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 Ameri#xAD;can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family-in particular her uncle William, or #x1C;Pappy,#x1D; with whom she shared color#xAD;ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. This deeply felt memoir explores the close re#xAD;lationship between Dean#x19;s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months be#xAD;fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean#x19;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#x19;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, Mis#xAD;sissippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notori#xAD;ously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.

Author Biography

Dean Faulkner Wells is the author of, among other works, The Ghosts of Rowan Oak: William Faulkner's Ghost Stories for Children. Until her death in 2011, she lived with her husband, Larry Wells, in Oxford, where they ran Yoknapatawpha Press together for thirty-two years.

Table of Contents

Faulkner Family Tree	p. xii
Butler Family Tree	p. xiv
Prologue	p. 1
My Father's Death	p. 5
Second Coming	p. 13
Ancestors	p. 29
My Father's World	p. 47
Count No 'Count	p. 59
Two Brothers	p. 67
The Waco	p. 91
World War II	p. 113
Wese and Jimmy	p. 123
Jill	p. 131
Cho Cho and Vicki	p. 147
Nobel Prize	p. 159
Pulitzer Prize	p. 171
Faulkners and Race	p. 177
The Women Pappy Loved	p. 185
Postcard from Paris	p. 197
A Wedding	p. 209
My Last Year at Home	p. 227
Pappy's Funeral	p. 243
Epilogue	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 263
Index	p. 265
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