William Faulkner

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figure in Northern Mississippi. Many details of his life
have shown up in Faulkner's writings. He was twice acquitted of murder charges.
He was a believer in severe discipline and was a colonel of a group of raiders
of the Civil War. He began as a poor youngster trying to take care of his
widowed mother, but ending his career as the owner of a railroad and a member of
the state legislature. He was killed by his former railroad partner shortly
after he had defeated the other for a seat in the legislature. There is a
statue of William C. Falkner facing his railroad today. (American Writers; 55b)
J. W. T. Faulkner was a lawyer, a banker, and assistant United States
attorney. He was an active member of "rise of the "rednecks"", the political
movement that gave greater suffrage to tenant farmers. The people of Oxford say
he had and explosive temper. (American Writers; 55c)
The characters Colonel Sartoris and Bayard Sartoris portray Faulkner's
great-grandfather and ...

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he studied English, Spanish, and French, but he was only in residence for
one full academic year. He took a job in a bookstore in New York City, but he
soon returned to Oxford. He did odd jobs such as a carpenter of house painter
for two years, then became postmaster at the university. He soon resigned,
saying in his letter of resignation, " I will be damned if I propose to be at
the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a
postage stamp." This same year, 1924, The Marble Faun was publicized, a book of
poems. Stone had subsidized its publication. (American Writers; 55g)
Faulkner decided to go to Europe by means of New Orleans. Once he ...

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