How Did William Faulkner's Life Impact His Work?

William Cuthbert Faulkner was a prominent figure to American literature in the twentieth-century. William Faulkner was a writer, a poet, an American novelist, play writer, and essayist. He is a legendary figure, not only for Southern writers, but for writers throughout the world. Faulkner wrote many popular novels and short stories through out his life time. Faulkner’s life had an impact on his art of writing and his particular style of writing can be seen throughout many of his works. William Faulkner’s early life had an impact on his later works of literature. Faulkner’s observations made during his adult life and childhood helped with creating scenes and characters for his stories and novels. He was born on September 25th in 1887 in New
When Faulkner was young his grandfather sold the family railroad company which forced Faulkner’s dad to seek employment elsewhere. This is when Faulkner moved to Oxford, Mississppi where the creation came from for many of Faulkner’s works. His last name was Falkner, but he added the u when he began to write fiction. When he added the u to his name it was a small act of rebellion against his father (Surber). Suprisingly, Faulkner was not an avid student. He dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade. He did go back for a short time to play football and then dropped out shortly after. William attended the University of Mississppi and dropped out after three semesters. Faulkner was at a great start by dropping out of school and becoming an alcholic. After high school, he seemed content in Oxford writing poetry and and working at the bank. In 1929, William Faulkner married his childhood sweetheart Lida Estelle Oldham on June 20th (“William Faulkner”). They had been best friends as young children and she pressured Faulkner to marry her after divorcing her first husband (Fargnoli, Golay 66). William Faulkner was the kind of person to often isolate himself away from society. “His social life was hit or miss”
With much dedication to his work and acceptance of his ideas from readers, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949(“William Faulkner”). The prestige value of winning this prize allowed Faulkner a great deal of money. Faulkner recieved two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded each year and awards excellence in journalism, literature, and music. He recieved the first one in January of 1955 for his novel The Fable. The second Pulitzer Prize was awarded to his novel The Reivers in June of 1963 (“William Faulkner”). Before Faulkner died he was awarded the National Institute’s Gold Medal for Fiction (“William