William Faulkner Foundation

[Mark Kohut]

coover won in the sixties for Origin of the brunists....McCarthy finished runner-up one year  I beleive I remember
and the Award was just deemed, given that way to the publisher, again I believe I once learned.
 
I have asked some older colleagues in the bizness then for info....

From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 10:45 AM
Subject: William Faulkner Foundation

colleagues,
an interesting issue came to my attention via one of the Russian readers of TRP

all possible sources, including dust jackets, inform us that, for his debut novel V., TRP received "much coveted" (or whatever) William Faulkner Foundation Award for the Best Debut Novel, right?
now, the Wiki gives link to the WFF, that turns out to be the PEN/Faulkner Foundation: http://www.penfaulkner.org/ - established in 1980, giving out prizes, however NOT for debut novels, and with no connection to the award we're interested in. apparently, this is a somewhat different WFF
there exists, however, the WFF that looks like the one we need, mentioned here: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/faulkner/ - but I was unable to find any mention of best debut novel prizes it might have given in the 1960s, and it seems to be in a rather sorrow state
the issue was more or less addressed by someone here: http://stormville.blogspot.com/2011/10/william-faulkner-foundation-first-novel.html - about a year ago, with no conclusive results
could anyone clarify the situation with this elusive WFF? does anyone know anything? what happened then and there? who gave TRP the award, and did anyone really do it?
Mx
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