The next ten years were spent shuttling around the country and the world, accepting awards and going on cultural exchanges to Russia, South America and Japan. Despite the constant travel Faulkner always maintained his base in Oxford, the source for so much of his fiction and the place that he called home. Faulkner died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962. He is buried in St. Peter's Cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi. Chronology 1897 Born on September 27 in New Albany, Mississippi.
Family moves to Oxford, Mississippi.
Enters the University of Mississippi in September as a special student. 1921 Works as a bookstore clerk for Elizabeth Prall in New York. Returns to Oxford, works as postmaster for the University of Mississippi. Job as postmaster ends, visits New Orleans on the invitation of Elizabeth Prall, meets her husband, writer Sherwood Anderson. 1925 Soldier's Pay published in February.