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Faulkner’s Birthday to Be Celebrated with Marathon Reading of Go Down, Moses

Happy Birthday to William Faulkner! On September 25, 2007, William Faulkner would have celebrated his 110th birthday. To mark this occasion, the University of Mississippi will host a birthday party at Rowan Oak, the novelist’s beloved Oxford home. The festivities will include a marathon reading of Go Down, Moses, which is the 2007 selection for Mississippi Reads, the statewide initiative that annually encourages readers to gather around a specific book by a Mississippi writer.

Go Down, Moses, which was published 65 years ago, will be read aloud by volunteers from 7:00 a.m. to approximately 5:00 p.m., at which time there will be birthday cake, refreshments, and music by East St. Peter’s Missionary Baptist Church to honor the author. All are invited to this celebration and encouraged to participate in the marathon reading. Volunteers may reserve a reading time by contacting Stephen Monroe by phone at 662-915-1493 or by e-mail at godown@olemiss.edu . William Faulkner’s 110th Birthday Celebration is sponsored by the Department of English, the University Museum, and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Click here for a copy of the official invitation postcard

 

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