Monday, May 18, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Sally Wolff King, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Historian Emerita

“William Faulkner in Holly Springs (University Press of Mississippi, 2025)”

William Faulkner in Holly Springs describes places and people in a small Mississippi town and defines how newly identified individuals and locales affected Faulkner’s writings. This new information about Faulkner’s sources helps elucidate how he often created: by absorbing and drawing from the history of places, people, and the surrounding culture. Wolff sees evidence of Faulkner in Holly Springs and shows how he transformed what he found there into some of his greatest works, including The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, Intruder in the Dust, and Requiem for a Nun.