facing. Two decades later, in a 2012 interview with the Post and Courier newspaper, Faulkner said that what precipitated her leaving so abruptly was a threat to kill her parents by a person present when she entered. Her parents' home was vandalized. In 1999, she told the Associated Press, "I went into it knowing I may not get anything out of it. I was doing it for the next woman." Writer Pat Conroy paid for Faulkner's education after she left the Citadel, and she became a middle school teacher in South Carolina. Faulkner attended Furman University and later Anderson College, where she graduated in 1999 with a degree in secondary education. After graduating she was hired by Carolina High School. In popular culture Lisa Simpson's experience in The Simpsons''' 8th-season finale, "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (1997), broadly resembles Faulkner's. References Notes BibliographyIn the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel (Simon Pulse:Reprint edition 2002) by Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel.In Glory's Shadow : The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America (Vintage:2001)'' by Catherine S. Manegold. External links "Women Gain Ground at Citadel", Fox News 1995 Interview on NPR 1976 births Living people People from Anderson County, South Carolina Anderson University (South Carolina) alumni Southern Wesleyan University alumni American women educators 21st-century American women