![]() A pilot himself, he had encouraged his brother to fly, paid for his lessons, and gave him his own plane, a Waco C cabin cruiser. The oldest of the brothers, William felt tremendous guilt and responsibility for Dean’s death. The best, because it placed me at the center of the Faulkner family the worst, because I would never know my father. ![]() The best and worst thing that could have happened to me took place on November 10, 1935, four months before I was born, when my father, a barnstorming pilot, was killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-eight. The dramatic event that governed her life occurred before she was even born: Wells is the daughter of Dean, the youngest of the four Faulkner brothers. Earlier this month Dean Faulkner Wells, the last living relative with firsthand memories of William Faulkner, published her deliciously anecdote-filled memoir, Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi. ![]()
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