William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi

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William Faulkner

16th St., Oxford, MS, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 34° 22' 8.76", -89° 30' 48.6432"

Mississippi State
Historical Marker

The creator of Yoknapatawpha County, whose stories about his people won him the Nobel Prize, is buried twenty steps east of this marker.

Last updated: 6/11/2016 15:58:16

StoppingPoints.com Editorial on William Faulkner:

(Funded by Oxford Rotary, 1990)

See also William Faulkner's birthplace in New Albany and William Faulkner's home in nearby Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner attended St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Oxford, MS and the University of Mississippi as well. The Lafayette County Courthouse and Confederate war monument in Oxford were the setting for the final scene in Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury.

Also, read about Jacob Thompson upon whom Faulkner based his character, Jason Compson, in The Sound in the Fury.

Related Themes: C.S.A., Confederate States of America, Confederacy

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