Timeline William Faulkner

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• 1897 William Faulkner born in New Albany, Mississippi William Cuthbert Falkner is born in New Albany, Mississippi. His family moves to Oxford when he is five.
• 1918 Faulkner joins the Royal Air Force in Canada William Faulkner trains as an RAF cadet in Toronto, but the war ends before he flies. He adds the u to his surname.
• 1919 Faulkner's first published poem William Faulkner's poem L'Après-midi d'un faune appears in The New Republic while he studies at the University of Mississippi.
• 1926 Faulkner publishes Soldiers' Pay William Faulkner's first novel appears, written in New Orleans with encouragement from Sherwood Anderson.
• 1929 Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner's novel of the Compson family, told partly through the mind of Benjy, is published. That June he married Estelle Oldham.
• 1930 Faulkner publishes As I Lay Dying Written in six weeks during night shifts at a power plant, the novel follows the Bundren family. Faulkner buys Rowan Oak in Oxford.
• 1931 Faulkner publishes Sanctuary William Faulkner's lurid crime novel becomes his first commercial success.
• 1932 Faulkner publishes Light in August William Faulkner publishes Light in August and starts working as a Hollywood screenwriter for MGM.
• 1936 Faulkner publishes Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner's novel of Thomas Sutpen and his dynasty appears.
• 1944 Faulkner co-writes To Have and Have Not For Howard Hawks, William Faulkner adapts Hemingway's novel. Two years later he co-writes Chandler's The Big Sleep.
• 1946 Faulkner revived by The Portable Faulkner Malcolm Cowley's anthology brings William Faulkner's out-of-print novels back to readers.
• 1949 William Faulkner wins the Nobel Prize in Literature William Faulkner accepts the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm, declaring that he declines to accept the end of man.
• 1955 Faulkner wins the Pulitzer for A Fable William Faulkner receives the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his novel A Fable.
• 1962 William Faulkner dies in Mississippi William Faulkner dies of a heart attack at 64. The Reivers, published weeks earlier, wins a posthumous Pulitzer.