In a small, warm, smoke-filled office at Random House, the great writer, William Faulkner, hunched over a typewriter. He was born on this day in 1897.
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For several weeks now, William Faulkner has been living in town and going to work daily in the office of Saxe Commins, his editor at Random House. Mr. Commins permitted us to stop by one day last week and watch the great man in travail, and we did, and he was. We found the two men working about four feet apart in a small, warm, smoke-filled room on the third floor. The room had green walls, a maroon carpet, and a single window.
A tall, serious-looking girl entered the office and, without a word, crossed to the bookshelves by Faulkner’s head. She pulled out a book, rifled the pages, put it back, and pulled out another. Faulkner went on typing without looking up. Commins said to the girl, “On your left, if you’re looking for Aristotle.” She thanked him, plucked a book from the shelves, and told Commins that she might be back later. “Any time,” he said, and the girl walked out.
Commins fished in his wallet and brought out a snapshot, which he handed to us. “Bill jumping,” he said. “Jumpin’ mah daughter’s mare,” said Faulkner. “That mare’s twenty years old. Mah daughter was in California with me in 1944, when Ah was workin’ for Warner’s; she was ’bout ten then. Every day on mah way to the studio to work, Ah’d drop her off at the ridin’ stables. One day, she came to the studio all dusty and said, ‘Pappy, Ah bought me a hoss.’ Turned out it was a mare withtemper.
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