In iEvery Day by the Sun, iDean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted mur-derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots all brothers, and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important Ameri-can novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family--in particular her uncle William, or Pappy, with whom she shared color-ful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. p This deeply felt memoir explores the close re-lationship between Dean's uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months be-fore she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean's tragic death, William helped to raise his