Dec 18, 2009
A white Southerner ahead of his time in many respects, William Faulkner was a product of
family and region. He was named for his great-grandfather, a Confederate colonel and railroad
builder, on whom he later based the character of Colonel John Sartoris of Sartoris and
The Unvanquished (1938). Although he never finished high school, the young Faulkner
read obsessively: the Bible, William Shakespeare,
and poets such as [The entire page is 1429 words long] ©2000-2009
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