William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Miss. He had [1] ______ education, [1] ______ then he joined the British Royal Air Force in Canada because he was too short. After the war he stayed at the University of Mississippi and began to publish poems or essays. In New Orleans, he met Sherwood Anderson, who helped him a lot. [2] ______ With the publication of Sartoris ( 1929), he found Yoknapatawpha [3] ______ [2] ______ a regional myth of 200 - year - long history, which was written [4] ______ in a [3] ______hut often baroque style and considered as a [4] ______ Among all novels, The Sound and the Fury ( 1929 ) , As I lay Dyig ( 1930 ) , [5] ______ Sanctuary ( 1931 ) ,Light in August (1932) ,Absalom, Absalom (1936) ,received [6] ______ much critical [5] ______. Apart from the creation of long novels, Faulkner often used short stories to fill [6] ______ in the historical development of Yoknapatawpha [7] ______ County. Durihg the 1930s he was off and on in Hollywood as a script writer, [8] ______ but his works for film are not accounted as being of much [7] ______ [9] ______ For his literary accomplishments he was [8] ______ a Nobel Prize in [10] ______ 1950 and he made a brief but important statement about his belief in the Nobel [9] ______ Speech: I believe that man will not merely endure: he will [10] ______..."