Word: faulknerisms
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...Reivers, Faulkner...
...Other U.S. winners: Sinclair Lewis. Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck, T. S. Eliot (a British citizen), William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway...
...Reivers, Faulkner...
...newsmen in a face-punching, camera-smashing frenzy. Then up rolled the 60-man local National Guard unit. It was Troop E of the Second Reconnaissance Squadron of the 108th Armored Cavalry Division, under the command of Captain Murry C. Falkner, nephew of Oxford's late Novelist William Faulkner...
Beyond Satire. Absurdity kept cropping out all during the prolonged wrangle between unbending Governor Barnett and the U.S. Government, as if the participants were following a script by that Mississippian master of grim comedy, William Faulkner, who until his death last July was Oxford's most famous resident. After turning Meredith away at Jackson, Barnett got stalled in the elevator for ten minutes while the crowd out side the building yelled "We want Ross!" A gifted satirist could hardly have invented the dialogue between Barnett and Doar. And there was something sadly comic about James Meredith's desire...