��� JFIF � � ��#�Exif II* & z � � ( 1 � 2 � �� ! � i� 0 06 May 1955, Oxford, Mississippi, USA --- 5/6/1955- Oxford, MS: Roots of a writer. Author William Faulkner. This is what the birth of literature looks like. Faulkner does most of his writing in this manner, hunched over a glass-topped table with a pen. SEE NOTE --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS ."