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WILLIAM FAULKNER

WILLIAM FAULKNER. By*SCTH. Early Life. Born: September 25, 1897 Birthplace: New Albany, Mississippi Name at birth : William Cuthbert Falkner (until 1924). Family. Mother: Maud (Butler) Faulkner Father: Murray Charles Faulkner Grandfather: Colonel William Clark Falkner

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WILLIAM FAULKNER

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  1. WILLIAM FAULKNER By*SCTH

  2. Early Life • Born: September 25, 1897 • Birthplace: New Albany, Mississippi • Name at birth: William Cuthbert Falkner (until 1924)

  3. Family • Mother: Maud (Butler) Faulkner • Father: Murray Charles Faulkner • Grandfather: Colonel William Clark Falkner • He had 3 younger brothers him being the oldest of the 4. • His daughter Jill was born in 1933

  4. Education • Dropped out of school right before graduating. • Devoted himself to undirected reading • Studied for a while at the university of Mississippi.

  5. Adult Life • Joined the British Royal Air Force (RAF) as a cadet pilot under training in Canada. • Enrolled for a few university courses, published poems and drawings in campus newspapers • In 1920 he joined the universities drama club • Worked in a New York bookstore for three months in the fall of 1921 • returned to Oxford and ran the university post office there with notorious laxness until forced to resign.

  6. Cont. Adult Life He becomes scout master of a boy scout troop. • 1924 he was removed from boy scout group for drinking. • 1924 resigned from post office because of charges brought by postal inspector. • 1927-1929 two poems were published. • 1931- two more poems were published. • 1932 published another poem

  7. Cont. Adult life • Leaves for 5 week assignment at 20th Century fox where he meets Meta Dougherty Carpenter and begins intimate relationship that last 15 years. • 1936 published another poem

  8. Tragedies • Grandfather dies-1922 • His daughter Alabama was born in 1931… • Nine days later she died His father died in 1932 His brother Dean killed in plane crash in 1935 Mammy Caroline Barr dies and Faulkner delivers eulogy in 1940

  9. Does he agree with modern movies • William Faulkner would agree with the movies “See No Evil” or “The Number 23” • William Faulkner would not agree with the movies “Where The Heart Is” or “The Notebook”

  10. Work cited • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner • http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/faulkner.htm • http://www.answers.com/william%20faulkner • http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/faulknersite/faulknersite/family/family.html

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