A Bit About William. . . .

Did you know that William Faulkner (1897-1962), who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, sometimes wrote sentences a full book page in length? Little wonder many readers found his works difficult to digest. Nonetheless, he was considered a literary genius and one of greatest novelists of the 20th Century.

Faulkner Factoids: He never earned a college degree. . . . He was rejected when he tried to enlist in the Army during World War I (too short). . . . He was fired from his job as postmaster at the University of Mississippi in 1924. . . . He, like legions of writers today, found fiction to be a not particularly lucrative form of writing; he had to work odd jobs to earn a living after Soldier’s Pay, his first novel, was published in 1926.