Every Day by the Sun by Dean Faulkner Wells

' Read Every Day by the Sun, then read Go Down Moses, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, and you will feel you have been on an archaeological dig with a master. 'A funny, extremely readable, incredibly likable memoir of what it was like to grow up with the great man.A wonderful book.'-Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama 'Dean Faulkner Wells has written a memorable family story, full of the intimacies of place and cherished connections, that not incidentally sheds unexpected, humanizing light on her august uncle, William Faulkner.'-Thomas McGuane

It is not only charming, poignant and witty, it is a priceless contribution to America's rich literary history.' -Winston Groom, author, Forrest Gump 'Nobody could have written this book except Dean Faulkner Wells. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life.įrom the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulkner’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962, Every Day by the Sun explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, Mississippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure.

It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean’s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. This deeply felt memoir explores the close relationship between Dean’s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months before she was born. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family-in particular her uncle William, or “Pappy,” with whom she shared colorful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century.

Every Day by the Sun by Dean Faulkner Wells