Not Color Blind: William Faulkner’s Fiction Reflects Racial Reality
2 min readSep 27, 2020
When American novelist William Faulkner passed away on July 6, 1962, racial unrest was rife in his home state of Mississippi-and in many other southern US states as well.
In fact, Faulkner, who was born on September 25, 1897, lived through many turbulent times when segregation, along with social and political unrest, was an all-too-common occurrence.
