William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, on Jefferson Street in New Albany, Mississippi. Some of his notable awards were the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, the 1955 and 1963 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction and the 1951 and 1955 National Book Awards. New Albany recognizes the significance of being the birthplace of one of the most celebrated writers in American Literature generally and Southern Literature specifically and as a result our mayor will proclaim the month of September as William Faulkner Month.
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Union County and New Albany are unique in that storytelling and writing have deep roots in the red clay soil that wellsprings so much life. William Faulkner's birth here in 1897 was not the beginning or the end of that creative aspect of our culture. His body of work provides a unique perspective and honors who we are in a way that resonates throughout the world.
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P.O. Box 657
New Albany, MS 38652
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