William Faulkner died on July 6, Nobel Prizes Thirteen laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in , for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. See them all presented here. Select the category or categories you would like to filter by Physics. Economic Sciences. Faulkner entered the University of Mississippi in but withdrew in He then held various jobs in New York and Mississippi until Faulkner married Lida Estelle Oldham Franklin on June 20, —she had divorced her husband to marry Faulkner and brought two children of her own to the marriage—and they later had two daughters, Alabama, who died nine days after being born, and Jill.
Though he lived most of his life at his Rowan Oak house in Oxford, Faulkner was writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia from until , a position he accepted in part because his daughter and her family were living nearby. Portions of his lectures at the university are recorded in Faulkner in the University and William Faulkner: Essays, Speeches and Public Letters Faulkner bought a house in Charlottesville in and finished a trilogy he had begun with The Hamlet , completing The Town and The Mansion Faulkner died on July 6, , of a heart attack in Byhalia, Mississippi.
He willed the major manuscripts and personal papers in his possession to the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. In addition, in and , his daughter, Jill Faulkner Summers, a resident of Charlottesville, donated two portions of his personal library to the University of Virginia collection.
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Faulkner had married Estelle Oldham, his childhood sweetheart, in , and they lived together in Oxford until his death. He was a quiet, dashing, courteous man, mustachioed and sharp-eyed. He constantly refused the role of celebrity: he permitted no prying into his private life and rarely granted interviews. William Faulkner died on July 6, , in a hospital in Byhalia, Mississippi. He was sixty-four years of age. During the early s Faulkner wrote poetry and fiction.
In the volume of verse The Marble Faun , a printer's error allegedly introduced the "u" into the author's name, which he decided to retain. Faulkner is considered a fine writer of the short story, and some of his stories, such as "A Rose for Emily," are widely anthologized put into a collection of literature. Soldiers' Pay and Mosquitoes precede Sartoris , Faulkner's first important work, in which he begins his Yoknapatawpha saga.
This saga, Faulkner's imaginative re-creation of the tragedy of the American South, is written so that each novel works with the others to clarify and redefine the characters. The novel introduces families that reappear in many of Faulkner's novels and stories: the Sartoris and Compson families, representing the land-owning, aristocratic Old South; and the Snopes clan, representing the ruthless, commercial New South. The book generally regarded as Faulkner's masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury , is written in a style that differs from most novels of the time.
It uses a stream-of-consciousness method where the author lets his thoughts flow freely , creating a different manner of thought in each of its four sections. The novel records the breakdown of the Compson family, which serves to suggest a breakdown of the southern ways of the past. Each section takes place in a single day; three sections are set in and one in The difficulties begin with the fact that the section set in is placed second in the book, while the other three set in are not in the order in which they occur during their three-day span.
The Benjy section April 7, is the most difficult section to read. Because the mentally impaired Benjy lives in a state where things rarely change, his report is purely physical, and the reader must figure out his own order of time. Faulkner gives two aids, however: the device of signaling time shifts by alternating the typeface between bold and italic, and the different people attending Benjy.
Out of Benjy's jumbled report comes background information for the novel. He is thirty-three years old, and in the constant care of an African American youth named Luster. Benjy is troubled by the absence of his sister, Candace, though she has been out of the household for eighteen years. The oldest son, Quentin, was sent to Harvard, where he committed suicide. Compson is a self-pitying woman; Mr. Compson is a drunkard; Uncle Maury is a womanizer; Candace is lacking in morals and, in turn, her daughter, confusingly called Quentin after her dead uncle , is also morally loose.
Ironically, the most sensitive and intelligent Compson, Quentin whose day in the novel is June 1, , shares Benjy's obsession about their sister. Candace and the past dominate Quentin's section, which is set in Boston on the day he commits suicide.
He is oppressed by the knowledge that the pregnant Candace is to be married off to a northern banker. The upcoming marriage is the reason for his suicidal state.
Jason, the third Compson brother, whose day in the novel is April 6, , is one of the great comic villains of literature.
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