Dean Faulkner Wells spent most of her life as a footnote in the story of her uncle William Faulkner. Even at her own wedding, she writes in her memoir, Every Day by the Sun (Broadway, $15), ?every eye in the church was on Pappy? as he walked her down the aisle. But as she grew older, Wells became something of a star herself, as an author, co-owner of a small publishing house, literary salon hostess and, perhaps most important, the ?last primary source? about her famous uncle. Wells, who died last summer at 75, made no claims as an official biographer. ?Every Day by the Sun? is simply an account of her experiences with the man who essentially raised her. Her father, William?s younger brother Dean, was killed in a plane crash months before Wells was born, and her stepfather, an abusive alcoholic, flitted in and out of her life before dying on skid row in Chicago when Wells was in her 20s.
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