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One of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, William Cuthbert Falkner, as his name was originally spelled, never graduated from high school. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons, and moved with his family to Oxford, Mississippi, at the age of five. As a young man, influenced by the work of English poets A.E. Housman and Algernon Charles Swinburne, he began writing ...
Mr. Faulkner’s self portrait, 1956. William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, where his father was then working as a conductor on the railroad built by the novelist’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (without the “u”), author of The White Rose of Memphis.Soon the family moved to Oxford, thirty-five miles away, where young Faulkner, although he was a ...
William Cuthbert Faulkner, născut Falkner ( 25 septembrie 1897 – 6 iulie 1962) a fost un prozator american, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în anul 1949, unul dintre scriitorii reprezentativi ai literaturii americane din secolul XX.
31 de mar. de 2016 · William Cuthbert Faulkner (b. 1897–d. 1962) grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, where his great-grandfather William Clark Falkner ( sic ), a writer, Confederate colonel, and railroad founder, was a local legend. Although he was a high-school dropout, Faulkner, emulating his ancestor, voraciously read the classics and began to write poetry.
William Faulkner - Nobel Prize, Southern Gothic, Novels: The novel The Wild Palms (1939) was again technically adventurous, with two distinct yet thematically counterpointed narratives alternating, chapter by chapter, throughout. But Faulkner was beginning to return to the Yoknapatawpha County material he had first imagined in the 1920s and subsequently exploited in short-story form.
22 de dic. de 2021 · 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 ...
23 de nov. de 2020 · William Faulkner’s Demons. In his own life, the novelist failed to truly acknowledge the evils of slavery and segregation. But he did so with savage thoroughness in his fiction. By Casey Cep ...
