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anthony: 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 ....