The Life and Works of William Faulkner
William Faulkner’s Style of Writing
By:Dixie
4th period William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, into a declining but prominent north Mississippi family. Five Years after his birth, 1902, his family and he moved to Oxford, Mississippi. The next year, Faulkner started school just to quit his last year of high school in 1915. (Brinkmeyer 331) He had to be a admitted into collage as a special student. He was admitted to the University of Mississippi only because his father, Murry Falkner, was the business manager of the University. Faulkner dropped out of college after a little over a year (George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. 321). Faulkner tried to be in the American Air Force but was turned down because of insufficient height. Then he enlisted for the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1918 and changed his last name from Falkner, like his father, to Faulkner, which is Canadian. The war ended before he could see service on the western front or receive his commission, but he was made a second lieutenant on December 22, 1918 (George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. 321). Faulkner was in and out of Oxford, Mississippi threw out his years. He was also in and out of jobs like store clerk, housepainter, dishwasher and also, for a short time he was also a rumrunner during the Prohibition, as he established himself as a writer. Estelle Oldham, his high school sweetheart, returned to Oxford with her two children, a boy and a girl, after she divorced her first husband. Faulkner got back with Estelle, than soon married her in 1929. They had two children together, a boy, who died an infant, and a girl. All together they had four children counting the two from her first marriage (George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. 321). William Faulkner’s best novels were between late 1920s and early 1940s. those novels included Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light
By:Dixie
4th period William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, into a declining but prominent north Mississippi family. Five Years after his birth, 1902, his family and he moved to Oxford, Mississippi. The next year, Faulkner started school just to quit his last year of high school in 1915. (Brinkmeyer 331) He had to be a admitted into collage as a special student. He was admitted to the University of Mississippi only because his father, Murry Falkner, was the business manager of the University. Faulkner dropped out of college after a little over a year (George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. 321). Faulkner tried to be in the American Air Force but was turned down because of insufficient height. Then he enlisted for the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1918 and changed his last name from Falkner, like his father, to Faulkner, which is Canadian. The war ended before he could see service on the western front or receive his commission, but he was made a second lieutenant on December 22, 1918 (George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. 321). Faulkner was in and out of Oxford, Mississippi threw out his years. He was also in and out of jobs like store clerk, housepainter, dishwasher and also, for a short time he was also a rumrunner during the Prohibition, as he established himself as a writer. Estelle Oldham, his high school sweetheart, returned to Oxford with her two children, a boy and a girl, after she divorced her first husband. Faulkner got back with Estelle, than soon married her in 1929. They had two children together, a boy, who died an infant, and a girl. All together they had four children counting the two from her first marriage (George B. Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. 321). William Faulkner’s best novels were between late 1920s and early 1940s. those novels included Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light
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