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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 ...
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi. ... William Faulkner House: William Faulkner House. May 23, 1968 : Oxford Lafayette ...
Location of Lafayette County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lafayette County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
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Abadie organized the University of Mississippi's annual conference on William Faulkner from 1974 to 2011. She was a founder and associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, from writing proposals for its funding in the mid-1970s, through years of acquiring important collections for the center's archives, until her retirement in 2011.
Map drawn by William Faulkner for The Portable Faulkner (1946). Yoknapatawpha County (/ j ɒ k n ə p ə ˈ t ɔː f ə /) is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based on and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson").