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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. >> bill griffith: this is where faulkner started his writing career in this room, here. >> anthony: for the past ten years, bi...

>> and it seems to me that the roar of the thousands is making him deaf to the needs of the millions. and i don't think he'll ever get where he wants to be unless he changes how he is. >> anderson was on earlier with james clapper, and he said are you taking any precautions? he talked about the mail situation. so i will tell you this that i will share. i ended my week last week with a conference call with the nypd for one of the open credible threats against me. that's how i ended my week. and now the middle of this week, my first phone call was to cnn security because the super in my building...

>> yeah. >> and it seems to me that the roar of the thousands is making him deaf to the needs of the millions. and i don't think he'll ever get where he wants to be unless he changes how he is. >> anderson was on earlier with james clapper, and he said are you taking any precautions? he talked about the mail situation. so i will tell you this that i will share. i ended my week last week with a conference call with the nypd for one of the open credible threats against me. that's how i ended my week. and now the middle of this week, my first phone call was to cnn security because the super in my...

No way i'm finishing this. sitting here, the booths, the curtains, the whole ring bell 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 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 this room here. >> for the past ten years, bill griffith has been curator at william faulkn...