Sept 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962 唐涛 李余方

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Born in New Albany, Mississippi in Moved to Oxford at the age of 5. He grew up as the eldest son of four brothers. He aspired to be like his great- grandfather, a writer as well. childhood

1919,university of Mississippi, after three semesters he dropped out. He had always dreamed of becoming a pilot in the army ， however was declined because of his height. 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.

For twenty years he worked in Hollywood writing several screen plays like Today We Live (1933) and Land of the Pharaoh (1955) and producing many novels and short stories. He later worked in Hollywood with Howard Hawks, a movie director ， who became a friend of him.

Faulkner died July 6th, 1962 after suffering from a coronary occlusion ( 心肌梗塞 ) Up to his death he worked as a Writer-In-Residence at the University of Virginia in The United States Postal Service issued a first-class 22-cent stamp commemorating his life

威廉 · 福克纳一生共写了 19 部长篇小说与近百篇短篇 小说，其中 15 部长篇与绝大多数短篇的故事都发生在 约克纳帕塔法县，称为约克纳帕塔法世系这个 “ 世系 ” 以 美国南方几个庄园主世家的荣辱兴衰为主线，表现了 一个世纪以来美国南方社会的历史命运、社会变迁以 及各阶层人物的起伏沉浮，写出了美国南方地区的典 型特征，具有浓厚的乡土气息。约克纳帕塔法是福克 纳作品的标志，是文学史上有名的虚构地点之一，原 型是他故乡所在的拉斐特郡（ Lafayette ）。

1.O. Henry Short Story Prize 2.Nobel Prize Winner(1949) 3.Pulitzer Prize Winner twice: A Fable(1955) The Reivers(1963) 4. American National Book Award twice: Collected Stories(1951) A Fable(1955) William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century one of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States. a representative of the writers using stream of consciousness

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