Introduction to Literature Task

Lecturer : Dian Fadhilawati, M.Pd

By : Evika Ventik Ernanta

Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

English Department

BIOGRAPHYOF

WILLIAM FAULKNER

William Faulkner is an American writer , also known as Will Faulkner, and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford Mississippi…

Who is He …….?

William Faulkner or William Cuthbert Falkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897 ….

Where is William Faulkner born …….??

William Faulkner has written many critically acclaimed short stories, plays, screenplays, essays and novels ….

Surprisingly, Faulkner was not very well known before being awarded the 1949 Noble Prize in Literature …

Surprisingly!

William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

The story of William Faulkner

Named him after his paternal great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, an adventurous and shrewd man who seven years prior was shot dead in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi …

Named after his great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, the “Old Colonel,”

had been killed eight years earlier in a duel with his former business partner in the streets of Ripley, Mississippi.

Parents of William Faulkner

Father Murry

Murry and Maud Butler Falkner

He grew up in one of the poorest states which at the time had 25 % of families below the poverty line..

He grew up as the eldest son of four brothers..

He hoped to aspire to be like his great-grandfather, a writer as well..

Childhood

He was quarterback on his high school football team however never graduated.

Although he never obtained his degree in college he studied for a period of time at University of Mississippi.

He had always dreamed of becoming a pilot in the army however was declined because of his height. ( 5’5”)

He later became a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force.

He remained in this Canadian Air Force through World War I but never saw flying time in combat.

As a Young Man

In April 1929, Estelle Oldham divorced.

In June she and Faulkner were married.

Estelle brought to the marriage two children, Malcolm and Victoria.

Estelle Faulkner

The places Faulkner lived influenced his stories. Although he spent the majority of his life in Mississippi.

William Faulkner House

• House he shared with his wife, Estelle Oldham Franklin which shows

similarities to the house in “A Rose for Emily”.

Life with his wife

In January 1931, Estelle gave birth to a daughter, Alabama.

The child, born prematurely, lived only a few days.

Faulkner’s first collection of short stories, These 13, would be published in September and dedicated to “Estelle and Alabama.”

The bitter and the sweet

He lost his sweetheart, Estelle Oldham, to another man.

Her family pressured her into marrying a young lawyer.

A Broken Heart

Estelle Oldham’s yearbook photo, 1913

Faulkner began his association with Hollywood

In 1932

In Hollywood mode

* Faulkner spent what would be the first of many stays at a nursing home facility in Byhalia, Mississippi.

* He would go to recover from his drinking binges.

* Not yet an alcoholic in a clinical sense, would go on extended drinking binges, oftentimes at the conclusion of a writing project.

January 1936

Throughout his life, William Clark Falkner worked as a railroad financier, politician, soldier, farmer, businessman, lawyer, and in his twilight years best selling author (The White Rose of Memphis)..

His Life

The grandeur of the "Old Colonel," as almost everyone called him, loomed large in the minds of William Clark Falkner's children and grandchildren…

Old Colonel

SARTORIS / FLAGS IN THE DUST, 1929

THE SOUND AND THE FURY, 1929 AS I LAY DYING, 1930 A ROSE FOR EMILY,1930 SANCTUARY, 1931 THAT EVENING SUN GO DOWN,1931 LIGHT IN AUGUST, 1932 ABSALOM, ABSALOM!, 1936 THE WILD PALMS, 1939 THE HAMLET, 1940THE PORTABLE

FAULKNER, 1946 INTRUDER IN THE DUST, 1948 KNIGHT'S GAMBIT, 1949 COLLECTED STORIES, 1950 REQUIEM FOR A NUN, 1951 A FABLE, 1954 (Pulitzer Prize) THE TOWN, 1957 THE MANSION, 1959 THE REIVERS, 1962 (Pulitzer Prize) THE FAULKNER-COWLEY FILE, 1968 FLAGS IN THE DUST, 1973 THE MARIONETTES, 1975 MAYDAY, 1977

Literary Contribution

These Thirteen (1931), Go Down, Moses (1942), and The Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950).

His books of short stories

The Sound and the Fury (1929) being ranked number six on the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century list.

Faulkner's achievements

Novel by FaulknerAs I Lay Dying (1930)

Light in August (1932)

Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctury (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and The Hamlet (1940).

His major novels

Faulkner died July 6th,

1962 after suffering from

a coronary occlusion

(Liukkone, Petri).

Up to his death he worked

as a Writer-In-Residence

at the University of

Virginia in 1957.

The United States Postal

Service issued a first-class

22-cent stamp

commemorating his life

and stint as a postmaster.

The End of His Life

The final formal

portrait

Faulkner Grave in Mississippi

American Society of Authors and Writers. “William Faulkner” American Society of Authors and Writer. 2006

Cambridge Encyclopedia. “William (Cuthbert) Faulkner - Life, Works, Awards, Later years, Discography, Listen to” State University. 2010

Liukkonen, Petri. "William Faulkner" Kuusankosken kaupunginkirjasto. 2008

Union Country Heritage Museum. “William Faulkner” Union Country Heritage Museum. 2010

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