Dean, two, and her cousin Jill, five, dressed for winter in 1938.

Maud; her son Jack Falkner, FBI agent and pilot; and her granddaughter Dean, two, in Oxford in 1938.

Dean with her nurse, Jerry, who taught her to say “Yes, ma’am” and how to say the alphabet backward.

Dean, four, with her mother, Louise; photo taken at the Lafayette County farm of her grandparents Sanford and Pearl Hale.

Dean at age seven in Clarksdale, Mississippi: “a scruffy little girl just home from school.”

Dean, ten, with her mother, Louise, and Boo Ferriss, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and cousin of Dean’s stepfather, Jimmy Meadow, circa 1946.

William Faulkner’s favorite photo of himself was taken by his neighbor Colonel Hugh Evans in 1947.

The homemade houseboat Minmagary, built in 1947 by William Faulkner and his friends Ross Brown, Ashford Little, and Hugh Evans.

William Faulkner relaxing in his library at Rowan Oak. From his weary expression it’s likely that this photo was taken just after he had finished “making one of the books.”

The premiere of Intruder in the Dust was attended by William Faulkner and his family, including Dean Faulkner, thirteen, (not shown). (News photo by Phil Mullen, the Oxford Eagle).

Jill Faulkner, twenty-one, shortly before her marriage in 1954 to Paul Summers.

William and daughter Jill boarding a flight to Stockholm, where he would receive the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded on December 10, 1950. (Commercial Appeal photo)

William Faulkner (center) with son-in-law Bill Fielden and step-granddaughter, Vicki Fielden in Manila, during Faulkner’s State Department tour in 1955. (Courtesy of Gillian Kay)

Dean, twenty, with longtime friend Sandra Baker, nineteen, while studying abroad in 1957 in Aubigny-sur-Nère, France.

William Faulkner, sixty, with niece Dean Faulkner, twenty-two, at Dean’s wedding reception at Rowan Oak in 1958.

Dean with her children, left to right: Paige, Jon, and Diane; photo taken in Panama on Mother’s Day, 1967.

Larry and Dean Wells, taken through the window of Yoknapatawpha Press, then located over Sneed’s Hardware on the town square of Oxford, Mississippi. (Chip Cooper, courtesy of W. S. Hoole Special Collections, University of Alabama Library)

Faulkner’s portable Underwood typewriter in his “office.”

Rowan Oak seen from the front. (© Buddy Mays/Corbis)

Falkner family plot at St. Peter’s Cemetery in Oxford: William Faulkner’s parents, Murry and Maud; grandparents J.W.T. and Sallie Falkner; brothers, Dean and Jack; sister-in-law Louise; cousin Dorothy Falkner Dodson, daughter of Judge John and Sue Falkner; William’s daughter Alabama Faulkner; and three infant sons of Judge John and Sue Falkner.