A vintage postcard of William Faulkner’s Hollywood apartment building.
Faulkner (center) with Howard Hawks (left) and writer Steve Fisher.
Photo: Courtesy of Robert Hamblin, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University
Faulkner and Meta Carpenter at her apartment building.
Photo: Meta Carpenter Wilde Collection, The University of Mississippi
A portrait Carpenter had made for Faulkner.
Photo: Meta Carpenter Wilde Collection, The University of Mississippi
A letter from President Reagan to scholar Daniel Brodsky after he received a copy of Battle Cry.
Photo: Courtesy Robert Hamblin, Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University
A draft of Faulkner’s unproduced script, now housed in the Warner Bros. Archives.
Photo: Amy Dickerson
Outside the building where Faulkner’s office was located on the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank.
Photo: Amy Dickerson
Hotel Highland Towers, where Faulkner lived in the penthouse during his years in Hollywood.
Photo: Amy Dickerson
Inside Musso & Frank Grill on Hollywood Boulevard.
Photo: Amy Dickerson
Faulkner’s name tops the list of acclaimed Warner Bros. writers on a plaque outside the company’s Writers Building.
Photo: Amy Dickerson
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Files from the never-produced film Battle Cry, Faulkner’s script intended to star Ronald Reagan.
Amy Dickerson
