♪ oxford, mississippi, is a lovely, incongruously eccentric, little island, a mutation, a college town, a magnet for writers, thinkers, and oddballs drawn, perhaps, by its rich literary tradition as the home of one of our greatest authors, william faulkner. faulkner was a mississippi native, a former postman, an outdoorsman and eventual winner of the nobel prize in literature and two pulitzer prizes for fiction. he never graduated high school. this was his house, roanoke. faulkner wrote such american classics as "the sound and the fury," "as i lay dying," "light in august" and "absalom absalom." 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
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