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Outline Life story of William Faulkner A song: Go Down, Moses The novel Further discussion William Faulkner in the realm of American literature, William Faulkner is a giant. More than simply a renowned Mississippi writer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer is acclaimed throughout the world as one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers never stood taller than five feet, six inches tall never graduated from high school never received a college degree living in a small town in the poorest state in the nation impending financial ruin, during the Great Depression could write a series of novels all set in the same small Southern county Early years William Cuthbert Falkner September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi A few days before William’s fifth birthday, the Falkners moved to Oxford, Mississippi William demonstrated artistic talent at a young age, drawing and writing poetry, but around the sixth grade he began to grow increasingly bored with his studies. Wife: Estelle Oldham Estelle was a popular, vivacious girl in Oxford Despite her romance with William, she dated other boys one of whom was Cornell Franklin, an Ole Miss law student who proposed marriage. She and Franklin were married in Oxford on April 18, 1918. A big liar Faulkner had tried to join the U.S. Army Air Force, but he had been turned down because of his height. In his RAF application, he lied about numerous facts, including his birthdate and birthplace, in an attempt to pass himself as British. He also spelled his name “Faulkner,” believing it looked more British, and in meeting with RAF officials he affected a British accent. “Novelist” Though he had seen no combat in his wartime military service, upon returning to Oxford in December 1918, he allowed others to believe he had. He told many stories of his adventures in the RAF, most of which were highly exaggerated or patently untrue, including injuries that had left him in constant pain and with a silver plat