Virginia Faulkner
American author
Virginia Louise Faulkner (1 March 1913 – 15 September 1980) was an American writer and editor.
Personal life
Virginia Faulkner was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1913. Her father Edwin J. Faulkner (1884–1931) was general counsel of the Woodman Accident Company, which her grandfather Albert O. Faulkner (1859–1927) had founded as the Modern Woodmen Accident Association in 1890. Her brother Edwin J. Faulkner Jr. would later serve as president of the Woodmen Accident & Life Company from 1938 to 1977.
She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1928 and attended University of Nebraska-Lincoln for two years. She then attended Miss Moxley's School for American Girls in Rome. She spent a year at Radcliffe College, where she became friends with Florence Meyer, daughter of Eugene Meyer.
Eugene Meyer offered her a job as a reporter at The Washington Post, which he had just bought at auction, and she began work there in November 1933. Although she remained with the Post for just six months, she helped modernize the newspaper's Sunday magazine section with clever The New Yorker-style articles, including a series titled "Our Own Washington Letter."
While working at the Post, Faulkner finished her first novel, Friends and Romans, which was published by Simon & Schuster in July 1934.
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