Achievements
• An American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi
• Regarded as one of the most influential writersof the 20th century
Achievements
• Works are famous for multiple （多重的） narrations and time shifts within narrative.
• Works are known to be very challenging and difficult.
• His great-grandfather, Colonel William Clark Falkner, appears as Colonel John Sartoris in Faulkner's fiction, had a distinguished career as a soldier, both in the Mexican War and the American Civil War.
Life
• He showed little interest in study and dropped out from his high school. Then he worked in a bank.
• Effected by his mother, when he was 10, he became a fan of Shakespeare, Fielding, Voltaire, Hugo and other eminent authors.
• Moved to Oxford, Lafayette in 1902
Life
• During World War I, he joined the Canadian Royal Flying Corps but never fought. • After that, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. • However, he still didn't take part in World War I.
• Willam Faulkner(1897-1962) • On Sep. 25,1897 • In New Albany, Mississippi • An writer of novels, short stories, poetry and occassional screenplays. • With a prominent great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner
William's Great-grandfather
• Faulkner came from an old, proud and distinguished Mississippi Family, which included a governor, a colonel in the Confederate Army, and notable bussiness pioneers.
Achievements
• One of the greatest writer in 20th century
• Initiator of Southern Renaissance
• One of the most influential modernist novel writers in the west
Life
• After his retiring, he attended University of Mississippi in Oxford. • To New York, New Orleans and Europe.
Life In His Marriage
• Be married with Estera in Lafayette, Oxford • He lived with his wife in solitude and concentrated her attention in literature, creating many excellent works.
• Awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature
Achievements
• Simultaneously original and assimilative; • Regarded as one of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States • A representative of the writers using stream of consciousness(意识流)
Influenced by
• Great-grandfather&Mum
• the help of Philip Stone (in 1914) and Sherwood Anderson
• Field Stone effected him andd Anderson encouraged him to explore southern culture and he formed his unique writing style
Career
A Rose For Emily
Willam Faulkner
About Author--Willam Faulkner
•Life •Achievements •Career&Works •Writing Charateristics •A Rose for Emily
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