Lawrence Wells
Lawrence Wells applauds his wife Dean Faulkner Wells after her talk at her book launch party for Every Day by the Sun, a Faulkner Family Memoir.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lawrence Wells' first novel, Rommel and the Rebel, chronicles a fictional trip made by German tank commander Erwin Rommel to the Civil War battlefields of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Wells got the idea for the book by reading a press account of a visit that five unnamed German military men made to Mississippi in the late 1930s. Wells found many similarities between the tactics of the Rommel and Forrest. Historical evidence suggests that Rommel was not one of the five men who visited Mississippi. However, the characters and plot for Rommel and the Rebel fell into place for a flight of imaginative fiction. Rommel’s Peace, a sequel to his first novel, is based on Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.s plan to contact Eisenhower and arrange a ceasefire. Shortly before D-Day, Rommel releases U.S. Army Lt. Max Speigner from a German POW camp and sends him to England as peace envoy. Rommel wants to stop the fighting. The British want to kill him. Speigner is caught in the middle. Wells has written one more novel since then, Let the Band Play Dixie. It fictionalizes an 1896 meeting between Confederate General James Longstreet and black activist W.E.B. DuBois. He also has edited the non-fiction sports yearbook: Football Powers of the South. He recently completed a new novel, All in a Name, an historical novel set in the time of William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I. Wells is the husband of the late Dean Faulkner Wells, niece of William Faulkner, who died July 27, 2011. Together they created and operated the Yoknapatawpha Press, which is based in Oxford, MS.
ABOUT THE YOKNAPATAWPHA PRESS
Founded in 1975, Yoknapatawpha Press is a southern regional small press which publishes works by southern writers. It is owned and operated by co-publishers and editors, Dean Faulkner Wells and Lawrence Wells. Yoknapatawpha Press is named for William Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, from the Chickasaw word meaning "gentle water."
To inquire about submissions, send query letter with stamped and self-addressed envelope. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be accepted and will be returned unopened.
Each year, the press, its Faulkner Newsletter, and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississipp sponsor the Faux Faulkner Competition.
Current titles include:
Helen: A Courtship, by William Faulkner; boxed facsimile edition of Faulkner's 1926 romantic 16-poem sonnet 
sequence (only a few copies available); ISBN 0-916242-11-0; $200.00. The poems were written for Helen Baird, a New Orleans debutante with whom Faulkner was enamoured while he was living in New Orleans and writing his first novel.
Marionettes, by William Faulkner; boxed facsimile edition (1979 issue) limited to 100 unnumbered copies of Faulkner's 1920 self-published one-act play, illus. with pen-and-ink sketches by the author (about 30 copies left in stock); ISBN 0-916242-01-3; $125.00.
For more information on the press, its titles, and the competition, visit:
www.yoknapatawphapress.com/contest.htm
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