{"id":32938,"date":"2014-01-24T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=32938"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:27:01","slug":"young-william-faulkners-amazing-illustrations-for-um-literary-mag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/young-william-faulkners-amazing-illustrations-for-um-literary-mag\/","title":{"rendered":"Young William Faulkner&#8217;s Amazing Illustrations For UM Literary Mag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize winning author and Oxford resident, who also studied at the University of Mississippi. You may have heard of him.\u00a0He wrote many literary classics at his home, Rowan Oak, which UM now owns and operates.<\/p>\n<p>But, in addition to being one of the most well-known 20th-century authors, Faulkner was also pretty great at drawing. I recently ran across an article complete with some of\u00a0Faulkner&#8217;s illustrations for the UM literary magazine, which he did as a young Oxford man who hadn&#8217;t yet become internationally famous.<\/p>\n<p>From Brain Pickings:\u00a0<em>&#8220;In 1916, as he was about to turn twenty, Faulkner began contributing poems and sketches to the\u00a0Mississippian, the literary magazine at Ole Miss \u2014 the University of Mississippi, in which he would enroll three years later for a brief three-semester stint before dropping out in 1920. But Faulkner continued to draw for the magazine until 1925 \u2014 shortly before he penned the aforementioned<a title=\"Faulker children's book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/30\/william-faulkner-drawings-mississippian\/\">\u00a0little-known children\u2019s book<\/a>\u00a0while courting his future wife \u2014 even earning small commissions for his drawings, largely inspired by Aubrey Beardsley &#8230;&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32946\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/young-william-faulkners-amazing-illustrations-for-um-literary-mag\/williamfaulknerdrawings9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32946\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32946\" title=\"William Faulkner drawings \" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/williamfaulknerdrawings9-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/williamfaulknerdrawings9-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/williamfaulknerdrawings9.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of William Faulkner&#39;s drawings for The Mississippian<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To see the full Brain Pickings post on Faulkner&#8217;s lesser known skills with a pen, along with the rest of the author&#8217;s drawings, click<a title=\"Brain Pickings link \" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/30\/william-faulkner-drawings-mississippian\/\"> this link to the Brain Pickings website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is pretty cool. 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