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When did William Faulkner buy Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi?
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William Faulkner
American novelist William Faulkner.
William Faulkner purchased Rowan Oak, a pre-Civil War house located on the outskirts of Oxford, Mississippi, in 1930. He lived in the home from that year until his death in 1962.12