Homer Bookwright
Character Key Number:
378
Display Name:
Homer Bookwright
Sort Name:
Bookwright, Homer
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Homer Bookwright (spelled without the "w" in "By the People") is a farmer and church member in Frenchman's Bend and a minor figure in four Yoknapatawpha texts. He does, however, have a memorable line in The Mansion, when he explains the jailor's wife's interest in Montgomery Ward Snopes' career as a pornographer by asking, rhetorically, "aint she human too, even if she is a woman?" (70).