Early Life
John Henry Faulk was born in Austin, Texas on August 21, 1913, to Methodist parents Henry Faulk and his wife Martha Miner Faulk. John Henry had four siblings: Hamilton Faulk (1905–1905), Martha Stansbury (1908–2008), Mary Faulk Koock (1910–1996), and Texana Faulk Conn (1915–2006).
Faulk spent his childhood years in Austin in the noted Victorian house Green Pastures. A journalist acquaintance from Austin has written that the two of them came from "extremely similar family backgrounds -- the old Southern wealth with rich heritage and families dedicated to civil rights long before it was hip to fight racism."
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