William Faulkner

William Faulkner was born in New Albany on September 25, 1897, the first of four sons of Murry Falkner and Maud Butler. The family moved to Oxford in 1902. He was born a Falkner. His surname became Faulkner in 1918; one account blames a typesetter's error on the title page of his first book, and he is said to have answered, "Either way suits me." His RAF papers that year already used the new spelling. He received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site — 16 mi
  The crossroads where Nathan Bedford Forrest routed a larger Union force in June 1864, and where Black regiments, many raised at Corinth, held the bridge that let most of the army escape.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center — 20 mi
  The parkway's headquarters and official visitor center near Tupelo, with a film, a small museum of the Old Trace and the surviving New Deal houses of the Tupelo Homesteads.
• Chickasaw Village Site — 21 mi
  A Chickasaw village on a remnant of the Black Belt Prairie beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, with house outlines marked on the ground and signs that speak in Chickasaw voices.
• Tupelo National Battlefield — 22 mi
  A one-acre park on Main Street marking the July 1864 battle of Tupelo, a Union victory that kept Nathan Bedford Forrest away from Sherman's supply line, with Black soldiers among the defenders.

More markers nearby

• Mosley and Johnson — steps away
• Union County, Mississippi — steps away
• Roma Wilson & Leon Pinson — 0.6 mi
• Myrtle — 7.7 mi