

Ted Olson is a lawyer and former U.S. Solicitor General to George W. Bush, and is perhaps most famous for his unlikely partnership with David Boies and their historic fight to overturn California’s Proposition 8, detailed in their book Redeeming the Dream: The Case of Marriage Equality. When we honored Mr. Olson at our 2015 Gala, he explained that southern Gothic is one of his favorite genres, and that The Snopes Dilemma: Faulkner’s Trilogy made excellent study of Faulkner’s classic characters.