One of My Favorite Pictures of William Faulkner

[huntertrw]

Here's one of my favorite pictures of William Faulkner, one that I have named "Mr. Faulkner at Ease." This was taken when he was at the University of Virginia during the time that he was author-in-residence there from 1957-to-1958.

 

[Briarcutter]

Here's one of my favorite pictures of William Faulkner, one that I have named "Mr. Faulkner at Ease." This was taken when he was at the University of Virginia during the time that he was author-in-residence there from 1957-to-1958.

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Great photo! Wish I was smoking what he was smoking!

 

[huntertrw]

Wish I was smoking what he was smoking!

Me, too! Based upon what I've read it could possibly have been Balkan Sobranie or Dunhill My Mixture 965.

 

[Briarcutter]

Me, too! Based upon what I've read it could possibly have been Balkan Sobranie or Dunhill My Mixture 965.

Could have been. Even if it we're SWR, it would have been tasty back then!

 

[huntertrw]

Even if it we're SWR, it would have been tasty back then!

In an article by Fred Brown titled "Yoknapatawpha's Pipe-Smoking Creator" which appeared in the Summer 2002 issue of Pipes and Tobaccos magazine, he quotes William Griffith, the then-curator of Rowan Oak, Mr. Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi regarding Mr. Faulkner's pipe-tobacco preferences, "Faulkner's favorite pipe tobacco was My Mixture (Dunhill's 965), but Griffith says when he couldn't get those tins, he brought Sir Walter Raleigh. 'I know that he smoked a great deal of Sir Walter Raleigh. I'm sure that he preferred My Mixture, but I don't think he could get his hands on it [often]. We have found a lot of [empty] tins Sir Walter Raleigh cans in [Faulkner's] house. I mean a lot.'"

 

[Pipeandapencil]

Such a cool picture. I think it captures the spirit of pipe smoking well.

 

[B.Lew]

One hell of an author (not everyone’s cup of tea) and an overall very interesting man. Nobel Prize for Literature is quite the accomplishment.

His acceptance speech is on LP. Wonder if he had a pipe in hand.

 

[Pipeandapencil]

not everyone’s cup of tea

I just cant seem to get through them, sadly his work just doesn't hold my attention. I must be broken.

 

[B.Lew]

I just cant seem to get through them, sadly his work just doesn't hold my attention. I must be broken.

Or it is me that is broken.
You either enjoy the run on thoughts, or get bogged down by it.

Maybe start with James J’s Ulysses to wet your beak.