1. Introduction to Literature Task
Lecturer : Dian Fadhilawati, M.Pd
By : Evika Ventik Ernanta
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
English Department

2. William Faulkner is an American writer , also known
as Will Faulkner, and Nobel Prize laureate from
Oxford Mississippi…

3. William Faulkner or
William Cuthbert Falkner
was born in New Albany,
Mississippi on September
25, 1897 ….

4. William
Faulkner has
written many
critically
acclaimed
short stories,
plays,
screenplays,
essays and
novels ….

5. Surprisingly, Faulkner was
not very well known
before being awarded the
1949 Noble Prize in
Literature …
William Faulkner won the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 1949.

6. Named him after his
paternal great-
grandfather, William
Clark Falkner, an
adventurous and
shrewd man who
seven years prior was
shot dead in the
town square of
Ripley, Mississippi …

7. Named after his great-grandfather, William
Clark Falkner, the “Old Colonel,”
had been killed eight years earlier in a duel with
his former business partner in the streets of
Ripley, Mississippi.
Father Murry
Murry and Maud Butler Falkner

8.  He grew up in one of the
poorest states which at
the time had 25 % of
families below the
poverty line..
 He grew up as the eldest
son of four brothers..
 He hoped to aspire to be
like his great-
grandfather, a writer as
well..

9.  He was quarterback on his high
school football team however
never graduated.
 Although he never obtained his
degree in college he studied for
a period of time at University of
Mississippi.
 He had always dreamed of
becoming a pilot in the army
however was declined because
of his height. ( 5’5”)
 He later became a member of
the Royal Canadian Air Force.
 He remained in this Canadian
Air Force through World War I
but never saw flying time in
combat.

10.  In April 1929,
Estelle
Oldham
divorced.
 In June she
and Faulkner
were married.
 Estelle
brought to the
marriage two
children,
Malcolm and
Victoria.

11. The places
Faulkner lived
influenced his
stories. Although
he spent the
majority of his
life in Mississippi.
•House he shared with his wife,
Estelle Oldham Franklin which
shows similarities to the house
in “A Rose for Emily”.

13. In January 1931, Estelle gave birth to a
daughter, Alabama.
The child, born prematurely, lived only a few days.
Faulkner’s first collection of short stories,
These 13, would be published in September
and dedicated to “Estelle and Alabama.”

14.  He lost his sweetheart,
Estelle Oldham, to
another man.
 Her family pressured
her into marrying a
young lawyer.
Estelle Oldham’s
yearbook photo, 1913

15. Faulkner began his association with Hollywood
In Hollywood mode

16. * Faulkner spent what would be the first of many stays at a nursing
home facility in Byhalia, Mississippi.
* He would go to recover from his drinking binges.
* Not yet an alcoholic in a clinical sense, would go on extended
drinking binges, oftentimes at the conclusion of a writing
project.

17.  Throughout his life,
William Clark Falkner
worked as a railroad
financier, politician,
soldier, farmer,
businessman, lawyer,
and in his twilight
years best selling
author (The White
Rose of Memphis)..


18. The grandeur of
the "Old
Colonel," as
almost everyone
called him,
loomed large in
the minds of
William Clark
Falkner's children
and
grandchildren…

19.  SARTORIS / FLAGS IN THE DUST, 1929
 THE SOUND AND THE FURY, 1929
 AS I LAY DYING, 1930
 A ROSE FOR EMILY,1930
 SANCTUARY, 1931
 THAT EVENING SUN GO DOWN,1931
 LIGHT IN AUGUST, 1932
 ABSALOM, ABSALOM!, 1936
 THE WILD PALMS, 1939
 THE HAMLET, 1940THE PORTABLE
FAULKNER, 1946
 INTRUDER IN THE DUST, 1948
 KNIGHT'S GAMBIT, 1949
 COLLECTED STORIES, 1950
 REQUIEM FOR A NUN, 1951
 A FABLE, 1954 (Pulitzer Prize)
 THE TOWN, 1957
 THE MANSION, 1959
 THE REIVERS, 1962 (Pulitzer Prize)
 THE FAULKNER-COWLEY FILE, 1968
 FLAGS IN THE DUST, 1973
 THE MARIONETTES, 1975
 MAYDAY, 1977

20. These Thirteen (1931),
Go Down, Moses (1942),
and The Collected
Stories of William
Faulkner (1950).

21. The Sound and the
Fury (1929) being
ranked number six on
the Modern Library’s
100 best English-
language novels of the
20th century list.

22. As I Lay
Dying
(1930)
Light in
August
(1932)

24. The Sound and the
Fury (1929), As I Lay
Dying (1930),
Sanctury (1931),
Light in August
(1932), Absalom,
Absalom! (1936),
and The Hamlet
(1940).

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Society of Authors and Writer. 2006
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Awards, Later years, Discography, Listen to” State University. 2010
Liukkonen, Petri. "William Faulkner" Kuusankosken kaupunginkirjasto.
2008
Union Country Heritage Museum. “William Faulkner” Union Country
Heritage Museum. 2010
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