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Today we celebrate what would have been the 110th birthday of who is in my opinion, and I'm sure the opinion of several others, one of the greatest Southern writers in history. And what makes him even more kick-ass, he was from good ole Mississippi. That's pretty much where all brilliant writers hail from (clearing of the throat). And not only was he a great Southern writer, he is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He even won the the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
However, while many people consider him a brilliant writer, others often criticized Faulkner's writing as being underdeveloped, and hard to follow due to his strong use symbolism, allegory, multiple narrators and points of view, non-linear narrative, and especially stream of consciousness. Faulkner is sometimes acclaimed as the inventor of the "stream-of-consciousness." What is stream of consciousness you ask Well it's basically like the flow of your thoughts put on paper I remember when I first got my computer it was a Christmas gift from my mother Anyway Faith was sitting at the computer and typing in everything that I said or anything she thought It really didn't make very much sense but after she read it back it was really funny sort of like The Office oh my gosh Dwight is so freaking hilarious he is definitely one of my favorite television characters and the romance that is blossoming between Jim and Pam is going to be such great watching Whatever happened to Mayim Bialik I mean Joey went on to dance on Broadway even though Blossom was the obvious dancer in the show's opening credits and Six was on that show with Countess Vaughan who is now on that celebrity rapping show on MTV She was also on Celebrity Fit Club I guess she did lose a little weight Oh and Tina Yothers was on that season too and she just had a baby today It seems like a lot of people are having babies Salma Hayek just had one so did that host of Dancing With The Stars Halle Berry is knocked up So is Christina Aguilerra and Nicole Richie I bet some other women are too Wait I was totally posting about something else What was it Flowers Dancing Babies Computers Oh yeah William Faulker was born on this day
Faulkner was raised in that awful place called Oxford, MS. However, if he were alive today, I'm sure he would be a Bulldog fan. By the way, the Bulldogs are 3-1 so far.
He wrote a lot of books. Here they are:
* Soldiers' Pay (1926)
* Mosquitoes (1927)
* Sartoris (Flags in the Dust) (1929)
* The Sound and the Fury (1929)
* As I Lay Dying (1930)
* Sanctuary (1931)
* Light in August (1932)
* Pylon (1935)
* Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
* The Unvanquished (1938)
* If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) (1939)
* The Hamlet (1940)
* Go Down, Moses (1942)
* Intruder in the Dust (1948)
* Requiem for a Nun (1951)
* A Fable (1954)
* The Town (1957)
* The Mansion (1959)
* The Reivers (1962)
* Flags in the Dust (1973)
He also wrote a lot of short stories. I won't list them all, but here are a few of my favorites:
* Country Mice
* A Rose For Emily
* That Evening Sun
* Mule in the Yard
* Barn Burning
* Shingles for the Lord
* A Portrait of Elmer
Facts you may or may not have known:
* He won two Pulitzer Prizes
* He had a serious drinking problem, however, he did not drink while writing
* He moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter
* He was the Writer-in-Residence at the University of VA from 1957 until his death at Wright's Sanitorium in Byhalia, Mississippi
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
Source: Wikipedia
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