William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner started off his working career as a bank clerk, then a Winchester Repeating Arms clerk, a Mississippi postmaster, a coal shoveler, a cadet pilot, and finally a poet, novelist and screenwriter. Faulkner was born in Oxford, Mississippi 1897 and died in the south in 1962. According to the Contemporary Authors series, " he wrote about fifty works from the time he published his first collection of poetry, The Marble Fawn, in 1924 to the last of the 'Snopes' series in 1959 (67)." The most common subject in all Faulkner's works is Yoknapatwpha County. The Norton Anthology of American Literature's editors feel that, "because all of Faulkner's works had been set in Yoknapatwpha county and were interconnected, the region and its people began to take on an existence independent of any one book in which they appeared(1524)." This is definitely true of the Snopes family. It is the opinion of Cleanth Brooks in William Faulkner, The Yoknapawptha County that Faulkner's characters reflect poorly on his other writings, "in the unobse
contradictions than he hopes the reader will- Faulkner's life was actually lived in the same context with which he wrote. Jean-Paul Sarte describes his writing as being "a passenger looking backward from a speeding car who sees, flowing away from him, the landscape he is traversing. He does not know the future, but, very clearly identifies the past (CA 69)." His writings consistently exhibited psychology and local color and were always in the deep south. It is Faulkner's consistent style of writing, his openness against the social and racial classes, which earned him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950 for Intruder in the Dust, that has given him a place in the best of the best. the human heart and its dilemma than he knew contradictions and discrepancies due to the fact These discrepancies however, seem to allude The Town. It seems this way because the reader thought that Faulkner had published as a sequel to The Hamlet, so it seems that "the author had forgotten some of the things with which he dealt so brilliantly in The Ham
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