William Faulkner – Hockey Aficionado
William Faulkner won two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature. He also wrote an essay about the first professional hockey game he attended back in November of 1955. Born in Mississippi back in 1897, hockey was not really on his radar…but it really is on mine!
I played professional hockey for 10 years and won the 1999 ECHL Kelly Cup in Biloxi playing for the Mississippi Sea Wolves. My father Vaclav Nedomansky was the first player to defect from a communist country and play in the NHL back in 1974.
I’m currently in production of a feature film documentary covering my father’s journey from Czechoslovakia to North America and found this 1984 NHL All Star Game magazine that contains William Faulkner’s first impressions of the fastest game on two feet…
William Faulkner’s essay about watching his first NHL game
After writing the screenplays for TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT and THE BIG SLEEP (with Leigh Brackett) Faulkner verbalized his take on the sport of ice hockey. Enjoy the read…
CLICK AND ZOOM ON THE IMAGE BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE
An Innocent at Rinkside (CLICK TO ENLARGE)
MOBILE VERSION: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE (January 24, 1955)
Until next time…
