50 States of Reading

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 Mississippi: William Faulkner-Short Story "the Bear"

Movie Tie Ins: The Long Hot Summer

Note from Human Resources, one should update their Read Across the United States Map:  William Faulkner  is from the state of Mississippi.  One should color in the state of Mississippi now.   


Arkansas Maya Angelou Alaska Nancy Lord Alabama Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Arizona Barbara Kingslover California John Fonte Reader Raymond Chandler Farewell my Lovely Colorado Rick Reily Shanks for Nothing Connecticut Wallace Stevens  Collected Poetry and Prose  Georgia Oilive Ann Burns Delaware Marisa De los Santos Hawaii Christopher Moore LAMB "The Gospel According to Biff: Christ's Childhood Pal Idaho Marilyn Robinson Florida Zora Neale Huston Dave Barry (Southern Florida) Ernest Hemingway (Southern Florida) Illinois Phillip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Indiana Kurt Vonnegut Iowa Wallace Stegner Kansas William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch Kentucky Robert Penn Warren Louisiana Kate Chopin Maine Heidi Julavits Michigan Jeffrey Euginides Maryland Edgar Allen Poe Complete Tales and Poems Massachusetts Dennis Lahane Mississippi William Faulkner The Hamlet  The Town The Mansion Richard Wright Black Boy Eudora Welty The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty Missouri Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Montana A.B. Guthrie Minnesota Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried North Dakota Leif Enger Nebraska Willa Cather Nevada Sally Denton New Hampshire Robert Frost New Jersey Janet Evanovich New Mexico John Nichols Milagros Bean-Field War Lee K Abbot All Things All At Once New York Micheal Chabon Adventures of Cavalier and Clay Herman Melville Moby Dick North Carolina Kaye Gibbons Ohio Toni Morrison Oklahoma Joy Hario Oregon Ken Kessey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  Pennsylvania John Updike Rabbit Series Rode Island H.P. Lovecraft South Carolina Pat Conroy South Dakota Deloria, Vine, Jr. Tennessee Ann Patchett Texas Larry McMurty Last Picture Show Utah Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire Virginia Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Vermont John Gardner October Light  Washington Sherman Alexie Ten Little Indians West Virginia Ann Pancake Wisconsin Carl Sandburg Poetry Wyoming Annie Proulx Brokeback Mountain from Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Scribner, 1999