William Faulkner was born in Oxford, Miss. He had [1] _______ edu- [1] _______.
cation, 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 Ander-
son, 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]__ but 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) ,re- [6] _______.
ceived much critical [5] ______.
Apart from the creation of long novels, Faulkner often used short sto-
ries to fill [6] ______. in the historical development of Yoknapatawpha [7] _______.
County. During the 1930s he was off and on in Hollywood as a script writ- [8] _______.
er, but his works for film are not accounted as being of much [7] ______ [9] _______.
For his literary accomplishments be 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] ..."