William Faulkner's Influence On The Literary World

One of the most famous writers from Mississippi is William Faulkner. Faulkner has had a great influence on the literary world. What makes Faulkner so great? William Faulkner created many famous novels and short stories that won prestigious awards, and earned a powerful reputation for his unique writing style. He has influenced writers from the South and elsewhere, and because of his influence others have used his techniques and themes in their works.

The early twentieth century was a time when writers experimented with new styles in writing. Faulkner did this as well. He is identified with the literary style known as modernism, a literary movement that began just after World War I. The modernists were concerned with postwar society

William Cuthbert Falkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He was the oldest of four brothers. Both of his parents came from wealthy families, but later when the Civil War came around, it caused his family to fall into poverty. William was named after his great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner, who wrote a popular novel in the 1880s. William rarely attended public school after the fifth grade, this resulted in him having to leave high school before his graduation in order to work in his grandfather’s bank. So, even though William was a very active reader and lover of poetry, he eventually dropped out of school before earning his high school diploma. After the U.S. Army rejected him because he was underweight and too short, just falling under 5’6, he enlisted in the Canadian Air Force. At this time, Falkner added the u to his name to make his name appear more British. The CAF accepted him into service in World War I where he suffered a leg injury from a plane incident. He then left the Air Force and returned back to Oxford in 1918. A year later, William enrolled at the University of Mississippi as a special student. He ended up leaving the next year to take a trip to New York City where he got several jobs that he didn’t like, so he left New York and came back to Mississippi (Tyle,