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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 ...
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"). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county ...
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 ...
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi. ... William Faulkner House: William Faulkner House. May 23, 1968 : Oxford Lafayette ...
On farmland previously owned by William Faulkner, MS writers will connect with nature and foster their creativity at the Greenfield Farm residency.
Thomas Sutpen is a focal character of William Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom! Sutpen arrives in Faulkner's imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, in the 1830s and establishes a 64,000-acre (100-square-mile) plantation, Sutpen's Hundred, in an attempt to create his own dynasty. It is eventually revealed that Sutpen was born to a ...