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4-9-2025
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In 1950, a Swedish reporter called Rowan Oak to give William Faulkner the good news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. When pressed about the necessary journey to Stockholm for the ceremony, Faulkner said, "I won't be able to come to receive the prize myself, it's too far away. I am a farmer down here and I can't get away." Faulkner did eventually travel to Sweeden to receive the award. But he was indeed devoted to farming this plot of land.
Just beyond the farmhouse, Faulkner built what he called a hunting lodge. He stayed here when at Greenfield Farm. While Faulkner probably never brought his typewriter to the property, it is likely he wrote longhand pages for works like The Hamlet, Go Down Moses, and Intruder in the Dust at the lodge. The structure burned around 1990. All that remained when I walked the land were stacks of bricks and the coils of a mattress spring.
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