![]() ![]() ![]() In 1995, the book finally finished, he sent it out to mainstream publishers like St. He began "The Black Flower" about a year before he left Rowan Oak, for a tenure-track position at decidedly unpretentious Motlow State Community College near Lynchburg, Tenn. The grace of God has much to do with creative success, I think - but not place. He wrote on the premises when he found time, but as he told the Oxford-American, a journal on the arts, in its just-published Faulkner centennial edition: "My writing was never better for having been done at Rowan Oak neither was the creative process any more difficult or aggravating than it would have been anyway. Eventually, Faulkner even made it possible for Bahr to make a living: From 1976 to 1993, Bahr worked as a curator in Faulkner's restored home in Oxford, the fabled Rowan Oak. He had come to the study of literature by way of his fondness for the work of William Faulkner, another native son of Mississippi and an inescapable influence. At the age of 27, he decided to enroll at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English and started work on his doctorate. ![]()
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