William+Faulkner



Author William Faulkner is today recognized as one of America's greatest writers on the basis of a body of novels that so convincingly portray the culture of the South in the years following the Civil War, with its <range type="comment" id="565570033_9">citizens </range id="565570033_9"><range type="comment" id="565570033_10">overcome </range id="565570033_10">by <range type="comment" id="565570033_11">grief </range id="565570033_11">and <range type="comment" id="565570033_12">defeat </range id="565570033_12">and trying to <range type="comment" id="565570033_13">cling </range id="565570033_13">to old <range type="comment" id="565570033_14">values </range id="565570033_14">while <range type="comment" id="565570033_15">struggling </range id="565570033_15">to <range type="comment" id="565570033_16">take their place </range id="565570033_16"><range type="comment" id="565570033_17">in a changing world.</range id="565570033_17"> The <range type="comment" id="565570033_18">acclaim </range id="565570033_18">that today is Faulkner's, however, was slow in coming. <range type="comment" id="565570033_19">Though </range id="565570033_19">Faulkner was <range type="comment" id="565570033_20">praised </range id="565570033_20">by some critics and <range type="comment" id="565570033_21">reviewers </range id="565570033_21">during the first part of his career, his novels did not sell well and he was <range type="comment" id="565570033_22">considered </range id="565570033_22">a <range type="comment" id="565570033_23">fairly </range id="565570033_23"><range type="comment" id="565570033_24">marginal </range id="565570033_24">author. For the first few decades of his career, <range type="comment" id="565570033_25">he made his living</range id="565570033_25"> writing magazine <range type="comment" id="565570033_26">articles </range id="565570033_26">and working as a screenwriter rather than as a <range type="comment" id="565570033_27">novelist</range id="565570033_27">. <range type="comment" id="565570033_28">Throughout </range id="565570033_28">this period, he <range type="comment" id="565570033_29">continued </range id="565570033_29">to write, though his novels, sometimes noted for the <range type="comment" id="565570033_30">stirring </range id="565570033_30">portrait that they <range type="comment" id="565570033_31">presented </range id="565570033_31">of life in the<range type="comment" id="565570033_32"> post-Civil War South</range id="565570033_32">, were generally <range type="comment" id="565570033_33">relegated </range id="565570033_33">to the category of strictly regional writing and were not widely <range type="comment" id="565570033_34">appreciated</range id="565570033_34">. Beginning in 1946, Faulkner's career took an unexpected and dramatic <range type="comment" id="565570033_35">turn </range id="565570033_35">as Faulkner came to be <range type="comment" id="565570033_36">recognized </range id="565570033_36">as <range type="comment" id="565570033_37">considerably </range id="565570033_37">more than a regional writer. The Portable Faulkner was <range type="comment" id="565570033_38">published </range id="565570033_38">in that year by Viking <range type="comment" id="565570033_39">Press</range id="565570033_39">; two years later he was <range type="comment" id="565570033_40">elected </range id="565570033_40">to the prestigious National Academy of Arts and Letters; he was <range type="comment" id="565570033_41">awarded </range id="565570033_41">the <range type="comment" id="565570033_42">Nobel Prize</range id="565570033_42"> for literature in 1949. Over the next decade, his work was <range type="comment" id="565570033_43">recognized </range id="565570033_43">in <range type="comment" id="565570033_44">various </range id="565570033_44"><range type="comment" id="565570033_45">ways</range id="565570033_45">, <range type="comment" id="565570033_46">including </range id="565570033_46">a National Book <range type="comment" id="565570033_47">Award </range id="565570033_47">and two <range type="comment" id="565570033_48">Pulitzer Prizes,</range id="565570033_48"> and he became a novelist <range type="comment" id="565570033_49">in residence</range id="565570033_49"> at the University of Virginia. His success <range type="comment" id="565570033_50">led </range id="565570033_50">to a <range type="comment" id="565570033_51">degree </range id="565570033_51">of <range type="comment" id="565570033_52">affluence </range id="565570033_52">that <range type="comment" id="565570033_53">enabled </range id="565570033_53">him to take up he life of a <range type="comment" id="565570033_54">southern </range id="565570033_54">gentleman, including <range type="comment" id="565570033_55">horseback riding</range id="565570033_55"> and <range type="comment" id="565570033_56">fox hunting</range id="565570033_56">. Ironically, he died as a result of an <range type="comment" id="565570033_57">accident </range id="565570033_57"><range type="comment" id="565570033_58">related to</range id="565570033_58"> these gentlemanly <range type="comment" id="565570033_59">pursuits</range id="565570033_59">, <range type="comment" id="565570033_60">succumbing </range id="565570033_60">as a result of <range type="comment" id="565570033_61">injuries </range id="565570033_61"><range type="comment" id="565570033_62">suffered<range type="comment" id="565570033_63"> </range id="565570033_62">during a fall</range id="565570033_63"> from a horse.



F in the first phase of his career: 2,5,8 F in the second phase of his career: 1, 4, 7, 9