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William Faulkner
American writer (1897–1962)
"Faulkner" redirects here. For other uses, see Faulkner (disambiguation) and William Faulkner (disambiguation).
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| Born | William Cuthbert Falkner (1897-09-25)September 25, 1897 New Albany, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | July 6, 1962(1962-07-06) (aged 64) Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Education | University of Mississippi(no degree) |
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| Spouse | Estelle Oldham (m. ) |
William Cuthbert Faulkner (;[1][2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he
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William Cuthbert Falkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi, to Murry Cuthbert Falkner, a railroad worker, and Maud Butler, a housewife. William was raised in Oxford, Mississippi, and, in 1915, left high school to work as a bookkeeper. Longing for adventure, he joined the Canadian Royal Air Force in 1918 by changing the spelling of his name to the British-sounding Faulkner. Faulkner entered the University of Mississippi in 1919 but withdrew in 1920. He then held various jobs in New York and Mississippi until 1924.
Faulkner’s first published novel, Soldier’s Pay (1926), drew on his experiences in World War I (1914–1918), while Mosquitoes (1927) examined literary life in New Orleans (in 1925, Faulkner lived there with the writer Sherwood Anderson). Faulkner married Lida Estelle Oldham Franklin on June 20, 1929—she had divorced her husband to marry Faulkner and brought two children of her own to the marriage—and they later had two daughters, Alabama, who died nine days after being born, and Jill.
Faulkner’s critical and artistic ascendancy did not begin until the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. Citing Faulkner’s use of multiple narrators, critics marveled at the text’s loose-limbed experimentalism, in wh