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William Faulkner
“The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past,” quoted William Faulkner, he was an American writer and a Noble Prize recipient in Literature from Oxford Mississippi. Faulkner also wrote short stories, novels, screen plays, plays, essays, and poetry. Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in a small town named New Albany, Mississippi. He enjoyed reading and writing. When Faulkner was younger, his last name was spelled differently and pronounced (Falkner). In Faulkner’s teen years, he enjoyed reading and writing poetry. Faulkner was remarkably intelligent, because of his intelligence, school had bored him. He dropped out of school and never received a high school diploma. After dropping out of school, he worked sporadically

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