William Faulkner

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William Faulkner

In September 25 , 1897 , the seemingly quiet city of New Albany Mississippi gave birth to one of the most influential that in American literary history .William Faulkner , proved himself to be one of the most remarkable and influential by leaving an indelible mark in the realm of literature through masterpieces such as The Sound and the Fury , As I Lay Dying , Light in August , and A Rose for Emily

Being the first-born child of Maud and Murray Falkner , Faulkner spent most of

his early life in the Oxford before joining the Royal Canadian Air force in 1918 . The different of the Faulkner 's and his ancestors family names remain undetermined , but Randy Nelson (63-4 ) writes that William Faulkner himself may have had his family name changed upon enlisting in the Canadian Air Force . While in another story , a typesetter mistakenly included the letter u ' in typing his last name (Nelson 63-4

By the 1940s , Faulkner decided cross over to the world of motion pictures , mostly to sustain his financial needs that serve as a downside of novel publishing . Accepting an invitation and a project from Hollywood filmmaker Howard Hawks , Faulkner wrote the scripts for a select number of Hawk 's films film adaptations of the novels The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler as well as To Have and Have Not by Earnest Hemingway (Minter 203-204 . However , Faulkner 's Hollywood career was soon challenged by a sudden attack of mental block , giving him...