John Faulkner

Who was John Faulkner?

John Faulkner was an American author. His works, in a plain style, depict life in Mississippi. Faulkner is best-remembered for the novels Men Working and Dollar Cotton, and the memoir, My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence, about his elder sibling, author William Faulkner.

John Faulkner was also an accomplished, self-taught painter. He did a series of paintings known as The Vanishing South and wrote a short paragraph to describe each one.