Faulkner Niece Dies
Dean Faulkner Wells, the niece of literary master William Faulkner, has died at an Oxford hospital from complications of a stroke. She was 75.
Her husband, Larry Wells, said his wife suffered a stroke Sunday and had been hospitalized at Baptist Medical Center-North Mississippi where she died Wednesday.
Graveside services are scheduled for Friday at Oxford Memorial Cemetery.
Faulkner Wells was born in 1936, four months after the death of her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, William Faulkner’s youngest brother, in a plane crash in 1935. William Faulkner, who she called Pappy, became her legal guardian.
Faulkner Wells worked tirelessly on the renovation of Rowan Oak, the last home of William Faulkner who died in Oxford in 1962. Rowan Oak is now a museum at the University of Mississippi.
