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Faulkner diary. What she read was eerily similar to a passage in “The Bear,” a story in William Faulkner’s 1942 collection of stories, Go Down, Moses, in which the protagonist opens an old leather farm ledger to uncover the truth of his family’s slave-owning history. Aug 9, 2011 · Two years ago, an important literary discovery was revealed -- the existence of a wealthy plantation owner's mid-1800s diary that had been read by William Faulkner and served as the great author's source for names, incidents and details in his prize-winning novels. Oct 15, 2010 · Some parts of the diary recount incidents in Leak's life, but most of the diary concerns business transactions, including the buying and selling of slaves and the building of a plantation home. Feb 16, 2010 · A little literary sleuthing has uncovered a link between an unpublished antebellum diary and the well-known work of William Faulkner. Sally Wolff uncovered the connection between the diary and Faulkner when she was working on a book about the people who knew Faulkner. The diary in Wolff-King’s hands appears to have inspired that passage—and, she would discover, many other stories, characters, and Jun 11, 2013 · In 2010, Sally Wolff-King, a professor at Emory University, made a surprising discovery: the ledger that Faulkner featured prominently in Go Down, Moses is heavily based on, and in some sections, nearly identical to, an actual plantation diary—the diary of Francis Terry Leak, a nineteenth-century plantation diary also known as the Leak papers. During his visits over the course of decades, Francisco recalls, Faulkner spent many hours poring over these volumes, often taking notes. Feb 11, 2010 · When Emory University adjunct professor Sally Wolff-King was researching her latest book, she came across a plantation diary that bore a strong connection to William Faulkner's novel Go Down Feb 10, 2010 · The author William Faulkner appears to have drawn the names of characters and other inspiration from a plantation diary just discovered by scholars. . ygduk uudfwefa qnmweoa qffles pfm hxdn fqb cljxu qdaixu qqyy