William+Faulkner

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Biography:
William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1867 in in Oxford Mississippi living a southern life.

The Bailey Oak is what his house is now known as which is a famous attraction. A large primitive home that predates all the way back to the Civil War. William bought the home in 1930 which is on four acres of land surrounded by Cedars and Hardwood tress. the home was built in the 1940'by a Colonel Sheegog from Tennessee who settled in oxford when it was just a small frontier. When he bought the home he renamed it "Rowan Oak"he settled down and got married to a woman name Estelle and her two children who's names were Malcolm and Victoria. It Was not until a few years later, William and his wife had a daughter named Jill. William died in 1962 and 10 years later his daughter, Jill, sold the home to the university of Mississippi. The University allowed people from all over the world to come and learn about William's work. The home was his private world in reality. The history of the area he lived in contributed to what he has written today.

William Cuthbert Falkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons born to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner. He was named after his Great-Grandfather William Clark Falkner, the "Old Colonel" who had been killed eight years earlier in a dual with his former business partner in the streets of Ripley, Mississippi.

At a young age, William demonstrated artistic talent at a young age, drawing and writing poetry, around the sixth grade he began to grow bored with school. His earliest literary efforts were romantic, conscientiously modeled on English poets such as Burns, Thomson, Housman, and Swineburne.

In 1918, after the U.S. Army rejected him for being under weight and to short, faulkner enlisted in the Canadian Air Force. During his brief service in World War I, he suffered a leg injury in a plane accident. In 1918 he left the air force and returned home to oxford.

William Faulkner enrolled at the University of Mississippi in 1919 . A year later he left for New York. After returning back to Mississippi, Faulkner became postmaster at the Mississippi University Station. In 1924 Faulkner was fired from his job as the postmaster for reading on the job. In 1931 his financial worries were gone thanks to the success of the //sanctuary//. He then went to Hollywood and worked as a scriptwriter and advisor for a year. In 1946 Faulkners gained a whole new reputation thanks to Malcom Cowley and his publishing of //The Portable Faulkner//. In 1949, Faulkner's work was quickly recognized in a Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1929, William Faulkner married  Estelle Oldham . The two lived in Oxford until the death of William Faulkner. Faulkner was a private man and wanted to stay out of the spotlight. He did not like to do interviews and rarely permitted people to interview him. Faulkner died on July 6, 1962. He died in a hospital in Byhalia, Mississippi, at the age of sixty-four.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Major Works: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">In 1924, William Falkner published his first book of poetry which was called The Marble Faun. In 1926 he published Soldiers' Pay. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">In 1927 he published mosquitoes. In 1929 he published The Sound and the Fury. In 1932 he published Light in August. William Faulkner has many more works. You can find more of his works on the links below.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Some Quotes from William Faulkner: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">William Faulkner has many great quotes. Among his many great quotes are the following:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">“The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">References: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/william_faulkner.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">http://thinkexist.com/quotes/william_faulkner/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/rowanoak.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">http://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html