Dean Faulkner Wells passed away yesterday at the age of 75 after suffering a collapsed lung. Dean Faulkner Wells was the niece of William Faulkner and he became her legal guardian shortly before she was born when her father died in a plane crash.
It was just this past spring when Dean Faulkner Wells released Every Day in the Sun, a memoir of the Faulkner family and her life with William Faulkner, her “Pappy.” Lemuria enjoyed a signing and a visit with her in March. Jerry Mitchell talked with writer Hunter Cole about Dean and the Wells family and shared this quote in The Clarion Ledger:
Author Hunter Cole, who knew the Wellses for 40 years, also was saddened by the news.
He said the book enables “all who knew and loved her to be forever connected with her voice and her presence. We’re blessed she wrote it.”
She is the last of that generation that knew Faulkner, he said. “When Willie Morris went, I thought the world would end, and now Dean is gone.”
Read the rest of Mitchell’s story here.
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