00:14You cannot swim for near horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
00:21William Faulkner
00:23The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner
00:29for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.
00:35William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi.
00:43He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, the oldest of four brothers.
00:48Both parents came from wealthy families reduced to poverty by the Civil War.
00:54A great-grandfather, Colonel William Faulkner, had written The White Rose of Memphis, a popular novel of the 1880s.
01:03William did not attend public school consistently after the fifth grade.
01:08He left high school prior to graduation in order to work in his grandfather's bank.
01:14William never earned his high school diploma, despite being an avid reader and a lover of poetry.
01:21During his brief service in World War I, he suffered a leg injury in a plane accident.
01:28In 1918, he left the Air Force and returned home to Oxford.
01:33In 1919, Faulkner enrolled at the University of Mississippi as a special student, but left the next year for New York City.
01:42After several odd jobs in New York, he left and again returned to Mississippi, where he became postmaster at the Mississippi University Station.
01:54During the years between 1926 and 1930, Faulkner published a series of novels, none commercially successful.
02:04But in 1931, the success of Sanctuary freed him of financial worries.
02:10He went to Hollywood for a year as a scriptwriter and an advisor.
02:15It was not until after World War II that Faulkner received critical acclaim.
02:20The turning point for Faulkner's reputation came in 1946, when Malcolm Cowley published the influential The Portable Faulkner.
02:32Two years later, Faulkner published Intruder in the Dust, the tale of a black man falsely accused of murder.
02:40He was able to sell the film rights to MGM for $50,000.
02:47One of Faulkner's greatest professional moments came when he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award the following year.
02:57The committee deemed him one of the most important writers of American letters.
03:02This attention brought him more awards, including the National Book Award for Fiction for Collected Stories and the Legion of Honor in New Orleans.
03:17He also won the 1951 National Book Award for the Collected Stories of William Faulkner.
03:25A few years later, Faulkner was awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, along with another National Book Award for his novel A Fable, set in France during the World War I.
03:40The book, generally regarded as Faulkner's masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury, 1929, is written in a style that differs from most novels of the time.
03:52It uses a stream-of-consciousness method, where the author lets his thoughts flow freely, creating a different manner of thought in each of its four sections.
04:03Faulkner had married Estelle Oldham in 1929, and they lived together in Oxford until his death.
04:14He was a quiet, dashing, courteous man, mustachioed and sharp-eyed.
04:21He constantly refused the role of celebrity.
04:25He permitted no prying into his private life, and rarely granted interviews.
04:31William Faulkner died on July the 6th, 1962, in a hospital in Byhalia, Mississippi.
04:39He was 64 years of age.
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