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Rowan Oak was the home of author William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi. It is a primitive Greek Revival house built in the 1840s by Colonel Robert Sheegog, an Irish immigrant planter from Tennessee. Faulkner purchased the house when it was in disrepair in 1930 and did many of the renovations himself. Other renovations were done in the 1950s.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
The Lyceum, University of Mississippi, 1848, designed by William Nichols; Rowan Oak (William Faulkner House), 1848; St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 1860, attributed to Richard Upjohn (Neo-Gothic) University of Mississippi Power House, site of William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying; Ventress Hall, University of Mississippi, 1889 (Richardson ...
Oxford: 16: South Lamar Historic District: South Lamar Historic District: March 10, 2009 : S. Lamar Boulevard and University Ave. Oxford: 17: George Wright Young House: George Wright Young House: November 14, 2007 : 100 County Road 233
Author William Faulkner was employed by the University of Mississippi in the Power House through the winter of 1929 as a night supervisor. [3] At that time, the plant would supply power during the night for both the University of Mississippi and the town of Oxford, Mississippi. The low power demand during the evening and the redundancy of the ...
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May 23, 1968 (Oxford: Lafayette: Well-preserved mansion where author William Faulkner lived and wrote.: 14: Fort St. Pierre Site: Fort St. Pierre Site: July 19, 1964 ...
They include William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury," in which he began to perfect his literary style and his gloss on racial and social stratification in his native Mississippi; Ernest ...