John Faulkner Writer

John Faulkner (September 24, 1901 – March 28, 1963) was an American author. His works, in a plain style, depict life in Mississippi. Faulkner is best-remembered for the novels Men Working (1941) and Dollar Cotton (1942), and the memoir, My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence (1963), about his elder sibling, author William Faulkner.John Faulkner was also an accomplished, self-taught painter. He did a series of paintings known as The Vanishing South and wrote a short paragraph to describe each one.

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Birth dateSeptember 24, 1901
Birth nameJohn Wesley Thompson Falkner III
Birth place
Ripley Mississippi
Date of deathMarch 28, 1963
Place of death
Oxford Mississippi

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1941 in literature
1942 in literature

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