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Thursday, October 14, 2010
William Faulkner Fun Fact
Since some people were not pleased with my previous "long" post, ill keep this one short. One fun fact about William Faulkner I discovered while during some research is that he was unable to join the United States Amy because of his hight (about 5' 5''). Subsequently, Faulkner joined the British Royal Flying Corps.
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Another fun fact about William Faulkner is that his birth name was actually William Falkner. He added the "u" to his name upon enlisting in the British Royal Flying Corps.
ReplyDeleteAnother fact about WIlliam Faulkner is that he used to write notes about his current projects on the walls of his home office. Visitors knew what he was working on just by reading his walls.
ReplyDeleteYES! NOT FIRST! Two facts: One, he wrote The Sound and The Fury. Two, he liked to paint when he was a kid.
ReplyDeleteA fun fact about William Faulkner is that after three semesters of studying at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, he took a job in New York City as a postmaster in the university post office. But, because he did not actually do his job and instead read or played with cards, he was forced to resign. During that period, Faulkner was also a scoutmaster for the Oxford Boy Scout troop, but he was asked to resign from that job, too.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner had an alcohol problem and although he didn't drink much while writing, he binged after completing a work as an escape from everyday life. I would guess he was probably driven to this by the fact that his teenage sweetheart married someone else for ten years before a divorce and then married him.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949
ReplyDeletesource:http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html
A legend about Hannah Flaum's post is that Faulkner's name is a typo and he didn't care about his name. another fun fact is that he worked for Hollywood during the 40s
ReplyDeleteMost of Faulkner's works are set in Mississippi, where he was raised and attended college. Also, his earliest writings were modeled off of English poets from the Romantic period.
ReplyDeleteStarting from 1933, William Faulkner worked as a screenwriter, working for MGM, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Brothers.
ReplyDelete*modeled off of works by English poets from the Romantic period
ReplyDeleteHe was a writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia in 1957
ReplyDeleteWilliam Faulkner was a romantic fellow. He dated Estelle Oldham as a teenager and wanted to marry her, but she married Cornell Franklin instead. But Estelle and Cornell divorced ten years later, so Faulkner married her in the end.
ReplyDeleteFaulkner was born and brought up in Oxford, Mississippi (which is clearly in the South.) As a result,most of his works were set in the South (Mississippi, for the most part). He is one of the most well-known writers of Southern literature.
ReplyDeleteAlthough William Faulkner is one of literature’s best-known alcoholics, he insists he never drank while writing. He used liquor as a way to escape his life, but he did not feel that it aided the creative process in any way.
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ReplyDeleteLet's Get Factual.
ReplyDeleteFaulkner was featured on a 22 cent U.S. Postal Service stamp, on August 3, 1987.
Faulkner dropped out of both high school and college!
ReplyDeleteIn the 1940s Howard Hawks (!!!!) invited Faulkner to write scripts for Hollywood and Faulkner low on money accepted. As a result he contributed to movies like To Have and Have Not
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