Author Study: William Faulkner

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"The past is never dead. It's not even past."  -  William Faulkner.

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum invites you to explore the well known novels of one of America's most remarkable and perplexing writers, William Faulkner. The gruop will meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month, with November and December dates to be discussed. View the full schedule  and order books in this series on Folio's Bookshop.

Many of Faulkner's novels are set in the fictional town of Yoknapatawpha County that is based on his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County Mississippi. In his novels Faulkner explores how people process the past; what they stubbornly hold onto, unwittingly forget, and willingly distort. He contemplates the unreliable nature of history and memory, and uses confusion intentionally to encourage us to investigate the mysterious parts of the mind and listen to the hidden meanings of life.His works…