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The Mississippi Poet Who Drop Ut Of School

Works Cited

Broods, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Fiction. New York: F.S. Crofts, 1943. Pages 409-414.

Faulkner, William. Collected Stories of William Faulkner. New York: Random House, 1950.

Mack, Mayrard. Ed. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 6th edition. Vol.2. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1992

Millgate, Michael. The Achievement of William Faulkner. New York: Random House, 1966.

Minte, David. William Faulkner: His Life and Work. Baltimore,
Maryland: The John Hopkins UP, 1980.

Volpe, Edmond L. A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner. New York: Octagon Books, 1974.

Many view William Faulkner as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary novelists of his time. William Faulkner's accomplishments resulted not only from his love and devotion to writing, but also from family, friends, and certain uncontrollable events. William Faulkner's life is an astonishing accomplishment; however, it is crucial to explore his life prior to his fixated writing career (Mack 1794-1798).
In 1905, Faulkner entered the first grade at the tender age of eight, and immediately showed signs of talent. He not only drew an explicitly detailed drawing of a locomotive, but he soon became an honor-roll student. Throughout his early education, he would work conscientiously at reading, spelling, writing, and arithmetic. However, he especially enjoyed drawing. When Faulkner got promoted to the third grade, skipping the second grade, he was asked by his teacher what he wanted to be when he grew up. He replied, "I want to be a writer just like my great granddaddy"(Minter 18).
Faulkner took interest in poetry around 1910, but no one in Oxford, Mississippi, could tell him what to do with his poems.
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