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September 2005
	Grishams donate $5M for rebuilding after hurricane damage (September 4, 2005)
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
	Admission fee to be charged at William Faulkner’s house (June 29, 2005)
	Novelist, historian Shelby Foote dies at 88 (June 28, 2005)
	Oprah’s Book Club to feature ‘A Summer of Faulkner’ (June 3, 2005)
May 2005
	Hints of William Faulkner’s values revealed in author’s Bible (May 3, 2005)
	William Faulkner’s Bible returned to Rowan Oak during dedication ceremony (May 1, 2005)
April 2005
	Restored Rowan Oak, home of William Faulkner, to be dedicated May 1 (April 25, 2005)
March 2005
	12th Oxford Book Conference honors Flannery O’Connor (March 22, 2005)
	Poet Ahmos Zu-Bolton dies at 69 (March 18, 2005)
February 2005
January 2005

November 2004
	Author Larry Brown dies at 53 (November 25, 2004)
October 2004
	Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth awarded state arts commission grant (October 14, 2004)
September 2004
	Faulkner birthday celebration Sept. 25 to feature reading of ‘Absalom, Absalom’ (September 14, 2004)
August 2004
July 2004
	English professor Ann Fisher-Wirth wins national poetry award (July 6, 2004)
	Rowan Oak, William Faulkner home, reopens after renovation (July 25, 2004)
	Faulkner lives on through play, future movie (July 28, 2004)
	Call for Papers: ‘Faulkner’s Inheritance’: 32nd Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, July 24-28, 2005. (Deadline: 15 Jan. 2005)
	Call for Readers: The Marathon Reading of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, September 25, 2004, Rowan Oak, Oxford, Mississippi
June 2004
	Marty Stuart arrested, charged with DUI (June 24, 2004)
May 2004
	Oxford American signs deal with Univ. of Central Arkansas (May 26, 2004)
April 2004
	Murry C. ‘Chooky’ Falkner dies at 76 (April 26, 2004)
March 2004
	Book Conference to honor Mildred Taylor in statewide celebration (March 18, 2004)
	11th Oxford Conference for the Book dedicated to novelist Walker Percy (March 17, 2004)
	Book recounts African-American artist’s pre-integration study at University of Mississippi (March 16, 2004)
	Literary programs in Jackson, Delta bookend Oxford Book Conference (March 10, 2004)
	Authors gather in Oxford for 11th Annual Book Conference April 1-4 (March 9, 2004)
February 2004
	Endowment establishes nation’s first Faulkner studies dissertation fellowship (February 9, 2004)
	Writer Richard Ford to read at Ole Miss Feb. 12 (February 9, 2004)
January 2004
	Louis Dollarhide, Ole Miss English professor emeritus, dies at 85 (January 17, 2004)
	Ole Miss professor Adam Gusson wins award for book on murder and blues (January 13, 2004)

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