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One of Mississippi's most admired writers, William Faulkner, loved the written word and bourbon. A close look at most great 20th-century novelists and playwrights will reveal lives, for better or worse, well-lubricated with alcohol. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Eugene O'Neill, Hunter S. Thompson, Tennessee Williams, Ian Fleming, Dorothy Parker, John Cheever… The list goes on and on. Prominent on that roll call is, of course, William Faulkner. For these legendary writers, it became de rigueur to drink, often to excess. Fitzgerald noted that for the American writer, "the hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta." Yet this affliction—er, condition—among writers goes back to ancient times. The great poet Horace observed that "No poems can please nor live long which are written by water drinkers." RELATED: Introducing the I-65 to 30A Podcast Historical marker describing William Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak. (OneSouthernMedia/2016) Faulkner is one of the greatest writers of this generation, penning such classics as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Sanctuary, Pylon, Absalom, Absalom!. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and twice won a Pulitzer Prize for A Fable, and again in 1963 (posthumously) for The Reivers. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, a small town not far from Oxford, where he lived most of his adult life. Faulkner personified [...]