Faulkner House, New Orleans

New Orleans. One of my favorite cities.
The Faulkner House, located at 624 Pirate's Alley in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been declared a national literary landmark since its renovation by owners Joseph J. DeSalvo, Jr. and Rosemary James, Co-founders with W. Kenneth Holditch of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc.
William Faulkner arrived in New Orleans as an unsung poet, and by the time he left for France a year later, he was well on his way to becoming America's most famous novelist. He had written and published his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, within a year of arriving, and had gained inspiration for Mosquitoes, The Wild Palms, and Pylon. To support himself, he wrote a series of poetic sketches about New Orleans, which would later be compiled into a collection, New Orleans Sketches.

Faulkner House Books
Today, Faulkner's ground floor room is occupied by Faulkner House Books, owned and operated by attorney Joseph J. DeSalvo. The bookshop is a sanctuary for fine literature and rare editions, including works of and about Mr. Faulkner.
The shop is located in the French Quarter, just off of Jackson Square, behind the Cabildo and opposite St. Louis Cathedral's rear garden.

William Faulkner won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.