After Christmas, I’ll try to explain what it means to market a debut picture book. Right now, I’m caught in the whirlwind of it all. For one thing, I’m making my final plans to drive from the Ozarks [where I currently live] to Mississippi [where I lived most of my life]. I hope to stop…
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Analysis of William Faulkner’s Short Story: A Rose for Emily
You can read “A Rose for Emily” Here: https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/wf_rose.html Before we talk about the story, “A Rose for Emily,” let’s talk about William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County for a moment: “William Faulkner…(born September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi), [was an] American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded…
Where Is William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County?
In Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emilly,” Miss Emily lived in Jefferson, Mississippi, which is a fictitious town in the fictitious county of “…Yoknapatawpha County (/jɒknəpəˈtɔːfə/). “Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based upon and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which…