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Beginning in 1957, Faulkner agreed to serve terms as the writer-in-residence
at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a move no doubt
motivated by the fact that his daughter and their growing family
lived nearby. As writer-in-residence, he agreed to participate
in question-and-answer sessions with students, faculty, and faculty
spouses. Tapes from these sessions were later transcribed to produced
Faulkner in the University, edited by his English Department
colleagues Frederick Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner. The latter would
go on to write the quintessential biography of Faulkner, a two-volume
set aptly titled Faulkner: A Biography in 1974, which he
would follow with an updated, condensed one-volume edition ten
years later. Faulkner would continue to divide his time between
Charlottesville and Oxford for the rest of his life, and he bequeathed
the bulk of his personal papers and manuscripts to the Alderman
Library at the university to form the William
Faulkner Collections, the single largest collection of Faulkner
papers and memorabilia anywhere in the world. Some of the more
interesting and unusual items in the collection can be seen online
in the library's "The
Most of Special Collections: Most Faulknerian" exhibit.
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