William Faulkner (center back) and his younger brothers, undated
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William Faulkner’s seventh grade report card (1911-1912)
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A technical drawing by cadet William Faulkner in his Canadian Royal Air Force training notes, 1918
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William Faulkner’s early manuscript poetry collection, Vision in Spring (1921), which he bound as a gift for Estelle Franklin
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A 1923 letter from William Faulkner to Four Seas Publishing regarding his manuscript of poems. Faulkner’s friend Phil Stone eventually funded the project, published by Four Seas as The Marble Faun (1924).
Photograph by Sanjay Suchak
Faulkner’s 1924 edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, which shows insect damage, likely from its time at Rowan Oak, his home in Oxford, Mississippi
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William Faulkner’s 1942 Warner Brothers ID card from his days working as a screenwriter in Hollywood
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An undated pictorial letter from William Faulkner to his daughter Jill, showing himself flying from Hollywood to his home, Rowan Oak, with a gift
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William Faulkner’s chart tracking his short story submissions to magazines, undated
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The opening page of William Faulkner’s manuscript of “A Rose for Emily” (detail) Copyright The Estate of William Faulkner
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William Faulkner’s much-used passports from the 1950s, when he travelled the world, sometimes as a cultural ambassador at the request of the U.S. State Department
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An issue of Ebony featuring William Faulkner’s essay, “If I were a Negro” (1956)
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William Faulkner and his champion and biographer Joe Blotner at the University of Virginia, 1958
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The typewriter issued to William Faulkner while Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia in the late 1950
Photograph by Sanjay Suchak
