Faulkner’s Rowan Oak Home Features A Beautiful Array Of Trees
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William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi, is known as Rowan Oak. The author moved there in the 1930s. It famously features the outline of the writer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Fable on the plaster wall of his study.
Many of the trees on the property date to the antebellum era. The driveway is lined by cedar trees. After Faulkner died in 1962, the home was declared a National Historic Landmark. His daughter sold it to the University of Mississippi in 1972. It is open for tours and has been visited by luminaries such as John Updike, Alice Walker, and Salman Rushdie.
