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About William Faulkner Background William Faulkner (1897-1962), one of America’s most innovative novelists, born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1987. He lived most of his life in Oxford. Faulkner had attempted to enlist as soon as the United States declared war in 1917 but was rejected because of his being short. He then was accepted as a volunteer in the Canadian Air force. He had been a student of the University of Mississippi on his return to Oxford after the war. However, he left without completing his first year with high marks in French and Span