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First turn at the 68th Kentucky Derby in 1942. (Photo courtesy of the Caufield & Shook Collection, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville)
First turn at the 68th Kentucky Derby in 1942. (Photo courtesy of the Caufield & Shook Collection, Photographic Archives, University of Louisville)

by Michael Anthony Lindenberger

When the editors of the brand new Sports Illustrated cobbled together the money to pay William Faulkner to come to Louisville to write about the mad scene leading up to the 1955 Kentucky Derby, they had but one real concern: how to keep the famously thirsty Southern writer away from the city’s equally well known, and forgiving, attitude toward bourbon drinking long enough to keep him writing. They needn’t have worried. Faulkner was on a roll. On the day he arrived, Tuesday of Derby Week, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and by the end of the week had produced, in daily chunks of 300 words each, one of the most famous pieces of sports journalism of the last century.

This article is originally published by LeoWeekly and re-printed here with permission. Read the entire article here: https://www.leoweekly.com

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