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Essay Galaxy - William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, with Jefferson as its county seat, is
both a mythical and actual place. Yoknapatawpha county is 2400 square miles in
area and has a population of 15,611 persons. Jefferson has an actual jail, town
square, old houses, and Old Frenchman's Place, even a railroad. Faulkner's
"Yoknapatawpha County" is in reality Lafayette County, and "Jefferson" is
actually Oxford. The Faulkner family lived there since before the Civil War.
This is where most of his stories take place. He pondered the family history
and his own personal history; and he used both in writing his stories.
(American Writers; 54)
Faulkner born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. In 1902 they moved to
Oxford ("Jefferson"), the seat of the University of Mississippi. His father,
Murray C. Falkner, (the u was added to the family name by the pr....
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