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William Faulkner Childhood Faulkner was Born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. The family Moved to Oxford , Mississippi (prototype of Yoknapatawpha), the setting of most of his works) when he was 5 years old. He grew up as the eldest son of four brothers. He hoped to aspire to be like his great-grandfather, a writer as well. As a schoolchild, Faulkner had much success early on.However, beginning somewhere in the fifth grade of his schooling, Faulkner became a much more quiet and withdrawn child. He began to play hooky occasionally and became somewhat indifferent to his schoolwork. As a Young Man He had always dreamed of becoming a pilot in the army however was declined because of his height. ( 5’5”) In 1918, trained as a pilot for the Royal Canadian Flying Corps In 1919, university of Mississippi, after three semesters he dropped out.He began to drink excessively. In 1920, he got a job at a bookstore so that he could read many works from Hawthorne, Mark Twain and so on. In 1925, he went to Eurpoe, his literary began in New orlends where he met Sherwood Anderson, who helped him get his first novel Soilder? Pay published in 1926. Adulthood As a screenwriter For twenty years he worked in Hollywood writing several screen plays like Today We Live (1933) and Land of the Pharaos (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. The End of His Life 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(常驻作家） at the University of Virginia in 1957. The United States Postal Service(美国邮政服务中心) issued a first-class 22-cent stamp commemorating his life and stint as a postmaster. Fame: 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 Unite