I'm writing from Compson, Miss. Thanks to William Faulkner, you might recognize the name, but you won't find "Compson" on any maps. The fictional town exists only in the pages of my fourth novel.

Harvard University's particular debt to William Faulkner who died in Oxford, Mississippi on July 6 at the age of 65, would at first seem to be of questionable nature. It is in Cambridge that ...

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