biography

William Faulkner was born September 25, 1897. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi. He wrote the story Race At Morning in 1955. He spent most his life in the south and he new it well. He wrote with compassion about his family, the community and people he knew. He created a country called yoknapatawpha. His country was made up of many different kinds of people from merchants to poor people and persecuted blacks. In some of his stories he tell how the south is still affected by its passed.

After only two year in high school he dropped out to join the royal air force. He joined the air force during World War 1. He later endured a stint for a brief time this was at the University of Mississippi before he started working at a series of odd jobs. One of his neighbors helped fund his first book. The book was called marble faun. His first novel called solder’s pay told about the return to Georgia a fatally wounded aviator. He had many stories that came from different things like his yoknapatawpha novels and his masterwork novels. His writing career lead to great success. He produced some of the greatest works of American literature. He has very good stories and they are compelling considering he only had two years of high school. People didn’t real notice him as an author till he was fifty years old. His personal life wasn’t the greatest either he had problems with alcoholism and debt and he also repeated bouts of infidelity.

In the years of 1930 through 1942 Faulkner had published a couple of collections of stories. he had a second book of poems and nine novels.from 1932 until 1955 he worked really hard on his writing and screenplays in Hollywood to help from the loss of his income from books. For him money during the 1930s and 1940s, he wrote screenplays in Hollywood. many of the screenplays he worked on became classics of the American cinema. Some of the screenplays he wrote were Gunga Din, To Have and Have Not, and The Big Sheep. he wrote in A more Traditional style in his later work. In his later work he still continued to develop his country of yoknapatawpha and its people. He really didn't get any public recognition until 1946. he got the Nobel Prize four years later following the publication of Intruder in the Dust. in this novel he confronted the issue of racism. His way of writing still continues to challenge and inspire writers today.

- Jessie Catherman

SOURCES- http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/progress/jb_progress_faulkner_1.html http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/faulkner.asp http://www.shmoop.com/william-faulkner/ and my literature book page 858