The heart of the four-day festival is the writers' conference featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Olen Butler and Shirley Ann Grau, among many others. Lost Faulkner Teleplays Found Two scripts written by William Faulkner for television during the 1950s and based on his own work were rediscovered recently by a graduate student in New York City's Museum of Television and Radio. For more details, check out this press release . The Faulkner statue to be dedicated on his birthday in front of the Oxford City Hall has drawn fire from Faulkner's family, who wish to respect Faulkner's lifelong desire for privacy. Meanwhile, city officials cut down a magnolia tree to make room for the statue, prompting outrage and criticism for the way the city has handled the Faulkner statue project.
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Check The Carriage House for other Faulkner web sites and other sites of interest from around the world. If you know of any Faulkner-related news item, please let me know . Links to newspaper articles online are subject to change. Titles which have been struck through indicate links which no longer connect to the article in question, though the article may still be located somewhere on the remote server. Among those reading will be several celebrity guests, including Jim Lehrer and some D.C.-area writers.