. >> we are the main gallery of the albert shirley small exhibition. this is a large exhibition surveying the magnificent william faulkner collection we have here at the library. william faulkner was a great american novelist who was born in mississippi and spent the last years of his career in the late 1950s and 1960s at uva. he is known for novels sanctuary and was also a poet and short story writer. it has been quite a long time since our last monumental faulkner exhibition. it also is the 60th anvergry - n anniversary of his arrival. we have people who visit and tell us about meeting faulkner while here. he was working at his own writi writing here and met with students, faculty, community members, faculty wives, female students from local or nearby women colleges since uva was only men at the time and other groups to talk about his novels, the state of literature and everything else. he also really enjoyed living in virginia. he had had a dream to learn to fox hunt. he was issued by the university even with the property stamp on the back. when he