I never know how to react when I learn that a contemporary has passed on.
Dean Faulkner was William Faulkner's niece and stepdaughter. I knew who she was when we were both students at Ole Miss. I don't know if she knew me. A friend of mine dated her from time to time.
She was the last living Faulkner. Last year she published a memoir of the Faulkner family. I need to read it.
I'm sorry I'll never have the chance to discuss it with her.
She was a literary figure in her own right.
The end of an era.
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