WILLIAM FAULKNER.
A biography of William Cuthbert Faulkner, a Nobel Prize awardee, is presented. He was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. His family moved to Ripley and then to Oxford, Mississippi where he had spent most of his life. He left school after tenth grade, worked in his grandfather's b...
| Published in: | Giants in Their Field: An Introduction to the Nobel Prizes in Literature pp. 344 - 347 |
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| Format: | Biography |
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Digitalia Publishing Corp.
1993
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| Summary: | A biography of William Cuthbert Faulkner, a Nobel Prize awardee, is presented. He was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. His family moved to Ripley and then to Oxford, Mississippi where he had spent most of his life. He left school after tenth grade, worked in his grandfather's bank and became interested in poetry. He enrolled in the University of Mississippi in 1919 as a special student but did not stayed long. |
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