William Faulkner
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's Yoknapatawpha County, with Jefferson as its county seat, is
both a mythical and actual place. Yoknapatawpha county is 2400 square miles in
area and has a population of 15,611 persons. Jefferson has an actual jail, town
square, old houses, and Old Frenchman's Place, even a railroad. Faulkner' ....
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.... University. Maud Butler was his mother
and Murray, John, and Dean were his three brothers. (American Writers; 55a)
Faulkner's great-grandfather was William C. Falkner. He was born in 1825.
He was a legendary figure in Northern Mississippi. Many details of his life
have shown up in Faulkner's writings. He was twice acquitted of murder charges.
He was a believer in severe discipline and was a colonel of a group of raiders
of the Civil War. He began as a poor youngster trying to take car ....
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