William Faulkner was an American novelist and short story writer. Faulkner (1897-1962), came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi and joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War. He studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips to Europe and Asia, and a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels and short stories on a farm in Oxford. He was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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