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Hennen 1 William Faulkner: The Life of a U.S. Novelist William Faulkner, born September 25, 1897, was the oldest of four brothers born in New Albany, Mississippi. His parents were Murry C. and Maud Butler Falkner; it was William himself who later added a “u” to the name. Soon the Falkners moved to Ripley, in the adjoining county, and then 50 miles southwestward to Oxford, where William was to spend most of his life. In Oxford his father owned and lost a livery stable and a hardware store before he became business manager of the State University. Later, besides building a railroad from Ripley into Tennessee, he had written a romantic novel, The White Rose of Memphis, popular enough to be reprinted 36 times. Billy, or “Memmie”-as he was called by the family-was an imaginative boy, always leading his brothers into fights. His imagination was fed by haphazard reading. There was no public library in Oxford then, but his household was full of books, including Dickens and many other English classics, that he would read. He dropped out of high school after his second year. At the time he was in love with a neighbor girl, Estelle Oldham. Dreaming of marriage, he went to work in his grandfather’s bank. Meanwhile, another neighbor, Philip Stone, took charge of his reading and provided him with books unknown in Oxford, many of which were in the Symbolist or Modernist tradition. Estelle ended up marrying another man and went to live in the Orient. Faulkner enlisted in the Royal Air Force of Canada and was sent to Toronto as a cadet pilot in 1918, but the war ended before he had finished his basic training. He returned home to Hennen 2 Oxford where he was admitted to the University of Mississippi. He stayed there only long enough to join a fraternity and contribute poems to the literary magazine. During the years that followed, he engaged in a series of occupations to earn enough for “paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey” while he was learning to write. In the fall of 1921 he worked as a clerk in a New York City bookstore. For the next three years he was the postmaster of the university station just outside Oxford. He spent the first half of 1925 in New Orleans. He wrote his fist novel, Soldier’s Pay, about the return to Georgia of a fatally wounded aviator. In July he sailed for Italy on a slow freighter; soon he made his way to Paris, partly on foot. He was living there alone, on the Left Bank, when he heard that the novel had been acce... This is not the end of the termpaper! Register below to see the complete version of this term paper.
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