Category: William Faulkner

William Faulkner was one of Americas famous American Southern writer. William passion for writing started at a young age, where he enjoyed reading, and writing. But before becoming a writer, William tried joining the Air Force. But he was rejected because of his height. The force thought he was a bit on the short side.…

William Faulkner was a well-known American author who wrote a lot of books as well as short stories set in the American south including A Rose for Emily. His stories often centered around southern morality and its impact. Which is something he knew a lot about having grown up and lived in Mississippi his entire…

I, William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer born in 1897 and died in 1962. During my life I achieved many awards including the Nobel prize in 1949 and published many of my books during the 1920s through 30s. I am known for my short stories, but I also wrote essays, poetry, and even a…

Would you ever think that Southern Americans would write stories based on morality in the early 1900s? Probably not based on the fact that slavery was abolished only a few years earlier. Authors, William Faulkner and Flannery O Connor were far from exceptions to this. In the short story Barn Burning written in 1939, author…

About author and his early life Americans have given the world great people among every field of life. If we look at the history of America we see that there are great novel writers, story writers, poets, actors, sportsmen or politicians. One of these great men was William Faulkner. William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on…

William Faulkner is widely known for his unique sentence structure. Absalom, Absalom! is regarded as one of Faulkner’s greatest works that makes use of complex language, sentence structure, and literary technique (Scott 92). Scott states that the way that Faulkner introduces the story has been described as ingenius; it is made up of jagged divisions…

Cover 1 of Sanctuary 1931 by William Faulkner represents the theme of the story best because of the offsetting nasty vibe it sets off. Also the picture of the woman all ripped up and damaged represents Temple Drake due to the horrors she went through that most likely scared her for a lifetime. In the…