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William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"

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[From The Norton Introduction to Literature]

(1897–1962)

A native of Oxford, Mississippi, William Faulkner left high school without graduating, joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1918, and in the mid1920s lived briefly in New Orleans, where he was encouraged as a writer by Sherwood Anderson.He then spent a few miserable months as a clerk in a New York bookstore, published a collection of poems, The Marble Faun, in 1924, and took a long walking tour of Europe in 1925 before returning to Mississippi. With the publication of Sartoris in 1929, Faulkner began a cycle of works, featuring recurrent characters and families in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), The Hamlet (1940), and Go Down, Moses (1942).He spent time in Hollywood, writing screenplays for The Big Sleep and other films, and lived his last years in Charlottesville, Virginia.Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.

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