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About William Faulkner

• CHILDHOOD
• EDUCATION
• GETTING ESTABLISHED
• CAREER
• ANALYZING FAULKNER
• AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
• NOTES

Born: 25 September 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi

Died: 6 July 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi

Married: Lida Estelle Oldham Franklin, 20 June 1929

Education: Attended the University of Mississippi

CHILDHOOD

When William Faulkner was born in his parents’ modest frame home, his birth name, William Cuthbert, was chosen by his paternal grandfather, bestowing upon the child the first name and middle initial of his regionally famous great-grandfather, Colonel William Clark Falkner. (The family name was actually Falkner, without the u, which the writer added to his name later.) The...

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1. Introduction
2. About William Faulkner
3. Faulkner At Work
4. Faulkner’s Era
5. Faulkner’s Works
6. Faulkner On Faulkner
7. Study Questions
8. The Falkners Of Mississippi: A Supplementary Chronology
9. Bibliography
10. Copyright

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