... writing poetry as a young schoolboy. In 1924, he used his own financial resources and published a collection of poetry called "The Marble Faunn". He met Sherwood Anderson who became a close friend and Anderson fueled his literary aspirations. Faulkner wrote three novels before finishing "The Sound and the Fury" and two more the year it was finished, 1929. The same year he married Estelle Oldham, who was a sweetheart ten years earlier in his ... is a fictional setting formed in Faulkner's imagination. This is the home of the Compson family in "The Sound and the Fury". In later books, Fau...

• Word Count: 658
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... adds theu? to his last name. He was soon discharged and returned to Oxford, Mississippi. Here he attended the university for two year. In the decade that followed, Faulkner donned a host of other identities, alternately and aristocrat, a bohemian, or a derelict? (Zane 5). Faulkner established himself as a major novelist in 1929 with the book The Sound and the Fury (Larinde). He wrote twenty novels and many short stories (Zane 1). His greatest achievements were ... the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950, the National Book Award, and Pulitzer Prizes. All of these awards came after he was ...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... that followed, Faulkner donned a host of other identities, alternately and aristocrat, a bohemian, or a derelict" (Zane 5). Faulkner established himself as a major novelist in 1929 with the book The Sound and the Fury (Larinde). He wrote twenty novels and many short stories (Zane 1). His greatest achievements were the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950, the National Book Award, and Pulitzer Prizes. All of these awards came after he was fifty (7). Although Faulkner lived ... in Canada, New Orleans, New York, Hollywood, and Virginia, most of his life was spent in ... ...

• Word Count: 1532
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 1927, Faulkner finished yet another novel entitled Flags in the Dust. Once this novel was sent to the publisher, it was cut down to 110,000 words and the title was replaced as Sartoris. Within the same month, Faulkner began The Sound and The Fury, which would later become his greatest novel (Minter 72). He completed the final edition of the novel while in New York in October 1928 (Millgate ... 26). In the summer of 1929 Faulkner was married. Estelle ... Oldham Franklin had divorced her husband and returned to Oxford with the two children of the marriage, Malcolm and ... ...

• Word Count: 1434
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , recording many of his annotations is his extraordinary short stories. Although Faulkner wrote many novels such as Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury, his intuition into the lives of people around him is clearly seen in his shorter stories. That Evening Sun, Uncle Willy, Red Leaves, Hair, and A Rose for Emily are a few stories that describe his broad array of writing ability. Faulkner was born in ... need to bury him with his horse and his best slave in order for him to have in the after life. The slave knows this is coming and runs away from the plantation making a hunt for the...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School