Larry Brown (writer)
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William Larry Brown was an American novelist, non-fiction, and short story writer. He received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fi
Screenshot from The Rough South of Larry Brown (2002)
Rowan Oak
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Rowan Oak was the home of author William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi. It is a primitive Greek Revival house originally built in 1844 for Robert B Sheegog, an Irish immigrant farmer from Tennessee.
Larry Brown (writer)
…included answering to alarms in and around the city of Oxford, which included the University of Mississippi campus. Brown once responded to a fire at Rowan Oak—the home of William Faulkner, but now a museum. Faulkner died in 1962—on Larry Brown's 11th birthday. By his own account, as he was teaching himself…
Rowan Oak
Faulkner wrote the plot outline of his 1954 novel A Fable on the walls of his office at Rowan Oak.
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