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The Ghosts of Rowan Oak, School Edition

May 26, 2015 By

The Ghosts of Rowan Oak, School Edition
$11.95
Author: Dean Faulkner Wells
ISBN: 9780916242169

In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The Werewolf," and the macabre story of "The Hound." This school edition includes an Introduction by Willie Morris, illustrated biography of William Faulkner, with study guide including discussion questions, vocabulary lists and suggested class projects, paperback binding, 84 pages. Recommended for middle school students. "Dean Faulkner Wells describes Rowan Oak and the Pappy of her childhood with a rare eye and with the Faulkner care and genius for words, and with the emotion of love." (American Bookseller)

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In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner’s niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of “Judith,” the chilling tale of “The Werewolf,” and the macabre story of “The Hound.” This school edition includes an Introduction by Willie Morris, illustrated biography of William Faulkner, with study guide including discussion questions, vocabulary lists and suggested class projects, paperback binding, 84 pages. Recommended for middle school students. “Dean Faulkner Wells describes Rowan Oak and the Pappy of her childhood with a rare eye and with the Faulkner care and genius for words, and with the emotion of love.” (American Bookseller)

About the Author
Dean Faulkner Wells

Dean Faulkner Wells (1936-2011) was the daughter of William Faulkner’s youngest brother, Dean Swift Faulkner, a pilot who was killed in a plane crash in 1935. Her stories and articles have appeared in Parade Magazine, Ladies Home Journal and The Paris Review. A contributing editor for Southern Magazine, she was the author of Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi,” and the editor of The Great American Writers’ Cookbook, The Great American Politicians’ Cookbook, and The Best of Bad Faulkner. She also wrote Belle-Duck at the Peabody, a children’s book about the ducks at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis.

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Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional press established by co-publishers, Lawrence Wells and the late Dean Faulkner Wells. Most of the press's projects are generated in-house.The company is named for William Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw word meaning "gentle water."

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