Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
The Union County Heritage Museum's Faulkner Garden in New Albany, Mississippi, grows the pokeberries Granny uses in the novel to make ink to write letters. (Source)
The Unvanquished first saw the light of day as a series of Civil War stories published in the Saturday Evening Post. (Source)
The Unvanquished is a prequel of Sartoris. Way better story set-up than The Phantom Menace.(Source)
Here's a doozy: Colonel John Sartoris's character is based on Faulkner's own great-grandfather. (Source)
Faulkner had the unusual habit of drinking while he wrote (okay, it's not that unusual). He's rumored to have favored mint juleps. (Source)