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a mutation, a college town, a magnet for writers, thinkers and oddballs, drawn, perhaps, by the rich literary tradition is william faulkner. a mississippi native, a former postman and outdoorsman and an eventual winner of the nobel prize of literature and two p h pulitzer prizes. this was his house. faulkner wrote such classics as the sound and fury, as i lay dying, and many of his works took place in a fictional county. a place very much like this place in mississippi. this is where faulkner started his writing career in this room here. for the past ten years, bill griffith has been curator at william faulkner s estate. on the wall here is an outline of one of his shovels.

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