Our finest hour tolled some 4,700 miles from Lafayette County, Mississippi, as King Gustaf VI of Sweden presented the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature to William Cuthbert Faulkner. But in the last blink of Jefferson’s eye, Stockholm would now come to Oxford. And more than Grand John knew, or we could have imagined, here they would come.
William Faulkner moments after becoming a Nobel Laureate.
John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He is the son of renowned University photographer, Jack Cofield. His grandfather, J. R. "Colonel" Cofield, was William Faulkner's personal photographer, and for decades was Ole Miss annual photographer. Four generations of the Cofield family have contributed to Oxford's pictorial history.
