William Faulkner

William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, and grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, where he lived for most of his life. Stories of his great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, a near-legendary local figure, influenced his fiction. He left high school without graduating. During the First World War he joined the Royal Air Force in Canada but did not serve in combat. He briefly attended the University of Mississippi and worked at odd jobs, including as the university's postmaster. In New Orleans he met the writer Sherwood Anderson, who encouraged him, and he wrote his first novel, Soldiers' Pay (1925). Most of his novels are set in Yoknapatawpha County, an imaginary Mississippi county based on his home region. They include The Sound and the Fury (1929), told partly through the thoughts of different members of one family, As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! He also worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and later two Pulitzer Prizes, for A Fable and The Reivers. He died in Mississippi in 1962.

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