Henry Faulkner, Manhattan 1940s Henry Faulkner and sailors Key West, Florida 1940s. Henry Faulkner and lifelong friend Tennessee Williams in Sicily, 1970s. Detail of painting by Edward Melcarth, 1954. Melcarth, also from Kentucky, was one of Henry Faulkner's roommate in New York. Henry Faulkner with one of his paintings of Taormina, Sicily, 1980. Painting by Henry Faulkner 1970s, Key West.