Faux Faulkner Prize Rewards Persistence

A wordy tribute to long-distance running that likened the Boston Marathon to “an onslaught of acne on a homecoming queen” beat similarly overwritten passages in the Jack Daniel’s Faux Faulkner contest, a William Faulkner write-alike competition. Wendy Goldberg, a Stanford University lecturer who wrote her doctoral dissertation on the Southern writer, trumped the field on her fifth try, becoming the first woman to win. Goldberg will read her entry, “Dyin’ to Lie Down,” today at a conference of Faulkner scholars in Oxford, Miss.