Techung biography of william faulkner
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William Faulkner Biography
Robby Windham English 1020 Ms. Roller 15 February 2017 Author Biography William Cuthbert Faulkner was a twentieth century, American author. He began writing in 1919 and continued to write prominent stories up until 1942 (Books and Authors). He wrote all types of literature including poems, novels, short stories, and even plays. To determine one specific genre of writing for Faulkner might pose as a difficulty to his many readers, although he does specialize in Southern Gothic. One might säga that Faulkner’s writing has underlying meanings which can be offensive to people (Weinstein, 2015). Although some may find Faulkner’s works offensive, he ties in many symbols and themes in his stories that make his work great. Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 (EBSCO). He grew up in the small town of New Albany, Mississippi where he was raised bygd his parents Murry and Maud referens till den amerikanska författaren william faulkner (Books and Authors). He had two siblings growing up, Alabama and Jill. The first t
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At a fall social function, friends inquired about my visit to the “Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha” summer conference at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Referring to topics (among them race, place, and elegy) in Faulkner’s novels and short stories, I explained the sessions were “an indulgence” of one of my favorite authors and a chance to restudy his longstanding works. Faulkner convinced me again of his brilliance with the written word. Almost in union, friends asked, “Why do you want to study Faulkner?; He is so hard to read!” My response was, “Because I finally can.”
One of the lecturers, James Carothers, reminded us, “You’re different every time you read a book.” Prior to the conference, I had pulled my yellowed-paged, dog-eared copy of As I Lay Dying off the shelf, and again relied on the wisdom of my high school senior English teacher, Mrs. F., to unravel the vignettes. Suddenly, I was sev
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Submitted by Joseph Blotner.
[Editors’ note: Following the publication of his Faulkner: A Biography in 1974, Joseph Blotner gave a number of presentations on the writing of the book. None of those presentations has been previously published, and we are grateful for Professor Blotner’s permission to offer the one printed below to our readers, who continue to find Blotner’s biography extremely helpful in the reading and teaching of Faulkner. The essay is based on a typescript that is a part of the Blotner Papers, which are now deposited in the Brodsky Collection at Southeast Missouri State University.]
If you would like to try to imagine what it was like for me at the beginning, picture yourself walking down a corridor of your office building as the dusk begins to fall on a December afternoon. As you are about to turn into your office, you glance ahead, and there, under the distant overhead light you glimpse for a moment a fi