How appropriate that my introduction to Dean Faulkner Wells would come in a copy of Southern Living Magazine.
The back issue of the all things southern periodical contained the introduction to Every Day by the Sun by Ms. Faulkner-Wells. She, as of January 2010, is the sole surviving link to the great southern novelist William Faulkner. Being on a southern adventure of my own, immediately I requested the library to order the book for the system.
The first chapter poignantly is also the first chapter in
her young life up until her mother’s remarriage. The book begins with the death of her father Dean
Swift Faulkner, the youngest of the Faulkner brothers, who died in a plane crash
in 1935. Brother William had supplied the plane and flying lessons in order to help the
younger Faulkner get a job. After the fatal barnstorming crash he carried out a
life-long devotion to his niece.
