You can even listen to what Faulkner himself told audiences about the experience at the end of both hisįirst term and his second one. Faulkner” is followed by the recollections of eleven people who were UVA students or teachers during the period His almost constant companion during his public appearances, wrote a rich account of that experience that you can read. In 2001 Joseph Blotner, who along with Frederick Gwynn was largely responsible for inviting the novelist here and Loss was mourned, his earlier presence on the Grounds (as UVA calls its campus) was remembered and discussed you can listen to On 6 July 1962, the day Faulkner died, the English department held a press conference at which, even as his

Reprinted from the UVA and Charlottesville newspapers from October 1956, when his appointment was announced, through the end of Chronologically, these begin with 31 articles As you scrollĭown this page, you’ll find several ways to explore it for yourself. There’s no need for me to say much about Faulkner's tenure as the first Balch Writer-in-Residence. In this archive you can hear 1690 minutes (over 28 hours) of Technology of that time – the reel-to-reel tape recorder.

Most of those sessions were recorded on the advanced Ranging from UVA students and faculty to interested local citizens. Between February and June, 1957, and February and May, 1958, at thirty-six different public events, he gave twoĪddresses, read a dozen times from eight of his works, and answered over 1400 questions from audiences made up of various groups, He certainly wrote while he was here, including much of The Mansion, but did more than enough speaking to earn that In December, 1957, getting ready to begin his second Spring semester at the University of Virginia, Faulkner joked in a letter that he was 'just the writer-in-residence, not the speaker-in-residence.'

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