BRODSKY COLLECTION ITEM IN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS EXHIBIT

An item from Southeast Missouri State University's Brodsky Collection is on exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

William Faulkner's hand-drawn map of his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, completed in 1945 in red and black ink, is featured in an exhibit of literary maps entitled "Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America."

The Brodsky copy is the only known version of Faulkner's 1945 map, which is a revision of an earlier map he had drawn in 1936. Both maps identify the locations of numerous events that take place in Faulkner's novels and stories.

Martha Hopkins, an interpretive programs official at the Library of Congress who organized the exhibit, said the Faulkner map is considered one of the highlights of the exhibit.

Hopkins had seen a reproduction of the map in one of the several volumes on the Brodsky Collection co-edited by Louis Daniel Brodsky, the collector, and Robert Hamblin, professor of English and director of the Center of Faulkner Studies at Southeast. Hopkins contracted the Faulkner Center for permission to use the original map in the exhibit.

Following the initial showing at the Library of Congress, the traveling exhibit will be displayed in 16 states.