![]() ![]() ![]() “After Dean’s death, William suffered from grief and guilt I imagine almost every day of his life,” Wells writes. 10, 1935, four months before she was born. She is the daughter of Faulkner’s youngest brother, Dean, who died in a plane crash on Nov. ![]() (“Family members have sworn,” writes Wells, “that the jug was waiting untouched in the street when returned two hours later.”) But his most important function is to serve as the memoir’s ethical and emotional center, the beloved “Pappy” who was far more than an uncle to the author. William Faulkner is the star of a few good yarns told here by his niece Dean Faulkner Wells, including one about the time he careened into Memphis, dead drunk and barefoot, and placed a jug of corn liquor on the ground behind a policeman directing traffic, just to make sure it would be well guarded while he went shopping. The marvelous stories that crowd the pages of “Every Day by the Sun” prove that when you have five generations of Southern relatives as your subject matter, you don’t even need a Nobel laureate to bolster your stock of anecdotes - though it never hurts. ![]()
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