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] ______..."