William Faulkner

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This paper discusses how William Faulkner is considered a giant among American writers. According to this paper, even though he never graduated from high school, did not earn a college degree, and grew up in the poorest state in the union, he accomplished a great deal. He became a Nobel Prize winner, a novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and made a small area of Mississippi famous.

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"In 1924 a book of Faulkner's poetry was published, but it was not successful. The following year he moved to New Orleans and decided to try fiction instead of poetry. Faulkner published several essays and sketches in The Double Dealer (a literary magazine) and wrote his first novel Soldier's Pay about a returning soldier who was physically and psychologically wounded in the war. After the book was accepted for publication, he went to Europe and stayed several months near Paris. When he returned, he started writing from his memories of life in the South where he had grown up--the people and culture, the look of it, the sounds and smells, all the sensory details of animal and plant life. It was truly a turning point: He wrote, "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it..." (Lion in the Garden 255). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Benson, Melanie R. "Disturbing the Calculation: The Narcissistic Arithmetic of ThreeSouthern Writers," The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 56, no. 4, 633-45, Fall, 2003.
• Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily," Collected Stories of William Faulkner, 119-130,New York, Random House.
• Faulkner, William. "Barn Burning," Collected Stories of William Faulkner, 3-26, NewYork: Random House.
• Faulkner, William. "That Evening Sun," Collected Stories of William Faulkner, 289-312, New York: Random House.
• Fennell, Lee Anne. "Unquiet Ghosts: Memory and Determinism in Faulkner," TheSouthern Literary Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 35-49, Spring, 1999.

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