Not Your Average Oxford Citizen

     There is a room in the J.D. Williams Library dedicated to the author of the well-written short stories As I Lay Dying and The Sound and The Fury, William Faulkner.

      On the third floor near the main staircase, there are pictures of him and his classmates, letters he wrote to directors, and rough drafts. “There’s the bust of William Faulkner and on the wall there is the portrait, but it’s broader than just William Faulkner,” shares the Blues Curator and Associate Professor of Special Collections, Greg Johnson.

 

    This room is often overlooked by writers who forget that one of the greatest Mississippi writers lived here, in Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner’s hard work and dedication is located in this room which should inspire the students every day to achieve in excellence.

 

(Information from The Mississippi Writer’s Page)