William Faulkner

• Name: William Cuthbert Faulkner.
• Born: 25 September 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, US.
• Father: Mary Cuthbert Faulkner.
• Mother: Maud Butler.
• Wife / Husband: Estelle Oldham.

 

Early life of William Faulkner

Born William Cuthbert Faulkner in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the first of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Faulkner (August 17, 1870 – August 7, 1932) and Maud Butler (November 27, 1871 – October 16, 1960). He had three younger brothers: Mary Charles “Jack” Faulkner (June 26, 1899 – December 24, 1975), writer John Faulkner (September 24, 1901 – March 28, 1963), and Dean Swift Faulkner (August 15, 1907 – November) 10, 1935).

Soon after his first birthday, his family moved to Ripley, Mississippi, where his father worked as treasurer for the Gulf and Chicago Railroad Company, owned by the Murry family.

Murry expected his father, John Wesley Thompson Faulkner, to inherit the railroad, but John had little faith in Murry’s ability to run the business and sold it for $ 75,000.

After the sale of the railroad business, Murry proposed a plan to move to Texas and make a new start for his family by becoming a rancher.

Mudd disagreed with the offer, however, and instead moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where Murry’s father owned several occupations, making Murry’s work easier to find.

Thus, four days before William’s fifth birthday, the Faulkner family settled in Oxford, where he lived on and off for the rest of his life.

The grandeur of the “Old Colonel”, as almost everyone called him, grew up in the minds of William Clark Faulkner’s children and grandchildren.

The son of the Old Colonel, John Wesley Thompson, opened the First National Bank of Oxford in 1910. Thomson later sold the railway business to his son Murry, who sold it.

Murry worked as a business manager for the University of Mississippi. Murry’s son, writer William Faulkner, firmly held his grandfather’s legacy, writing about him in his earliest novels set in the American South.

As much as the elders of Faulkner’s family were affected, so did the women. Faulkner’s mother, Maud, and grandmother Lelia Butler were voracious readers, as well as fine painters and photographers, and taught him the beauty of line and colour.

Faulkner’s “Mamie”, as he called her, was a black woman named Caroline Barr. He raised her from birth until he left home and was fundamental to her development.

In the wake of this, Faulkner told the mourning crowd that he had the privilege of seeing that she had taught him the wrong and was loyal to his family despite none of them being born.

In later documents, Faulkner described Lar as motivated for his fascination with sexuality and race politics.

Faulkner, meanwhile, wrote “[his] mess” in the more technically sophisticated The Sound and the Fury, believing that he was prepared to remain permanently unpublished and therefore cautious professionalism of the literary market Concessions were not granted.

The novel found a publisher in spite of the difficulties it faced for its readers, and from the moment of its appearance in October 1929.

Faulkner moved confidently as a writer, creating new themes, new areas of experience, and Above all, the new technological challenges were the decision to leave talk, infiltration and publicity to literary centres important to their extraordinary early productivity and that Area to stay in return oxford small town Dursthta, where he was already at home and devote themselves to isolation, to the actual writing.

In 1929 she married Estelle Oldham — whose previous marriage, now terminated, helped her run in the RAF in 1918.

A year later he bought Rowan Oak, a handsome but run-down pre-civil war house on the outskirts of Oxford, working at home with restoration hunting, a turning point in the years ahead.

A daughter, Jill, was born to the couple in 1933, and although their marriage was otherwise troubled, Faulkner was working at home in the 1930s and ’40s, except when financial needs led her to accept Hollywood screenwriting assignments But he accomplished it very efficiently.

As I’m Dying (1930) is an absurd epic that uses multiple streams of consciousness to tell the ridiculous, humorous story of a family of poor white people intended to fulfil a mother’s request for death.

In August Light in Story (1932) takes place on a single day. Although complicated by a subplot, Light in August generates enormous power and is perhaps second in Faulkner’s books.

Faulkner’s creativity declined after 1935. Although sometimes interesting and sometimes brilliant, his work was swiftly repeated.

Some of the Great Books by William Faulkner

1- Sanctuary (1931)
2 – Soldiers’ Pay (1926)
3 – A Rose for Emily (1930)
4 – The Sound and the Fury (1929)
5 – Light in August (1932)
6 – As I Lay Dying (1930)
7 – The Hamlet (1940)
8 – The Reivers (1962)
9 – Absalom, Absalom! (1936)