25, 1897 and then moved to Oxford, Mississippi with his family at the age of 5. Most of the novels

written by William Faulkner take place in the area in which he himself was born and raised. He

renames Oxford and calls this place Jefferson, Mississippi. Faulkner is a contemporary American

author who has achieved greatness as an author. He is already considered to be one of the world’s

greatest novelists and has been awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. This is quite an

achievement as it is the highest prize that can be awarded to an author. Of all of Faulkner’s

achievements, "The Sound and the Fury" is considered to be one of his greatest novels. Faulkner

was part of a distinguished family in Mississippi. His name was originally spelled Falkner. The "u"

was added by mistake when his first novel was published and William Falkner decided to retain the

Anderson fueled his literary aspirations. Faulkner wrote three novels before finishing "The Sound

great-grandson and published one of the nation’s best sellers called "The White Rose of Memphis".

increasingly connected to the modern world. William Faulkner is an esteemed writer of the 1900’s

a young schoolboy. In 1924, he used his own financial resources and published a collection of

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