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William Faulkner “ Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth.”- William Faulkner. Faulkner is said to be one of the greatest American writers of his time. He wasn’t afraid to write about what others wouldn’t. William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25th, 1897 and died on July 6th, 1962. He was raised from childhood by his nanny who was a black woman named Caroline Barr. Being raised by Caroline gave him an insight to the black community that most kids his age wouldn’t have experienced. By the time Faulkner was twelve, he had genuinely enjoyed drawing, writing, and poetry. Although he was very smart …show more content…

Partially because he thought school was boring. After dropping out Faulkner worked as a clerk at his grandpa's bank. After a while a man named Phil Stone took him under his wing and invited Faulkner to live with him in New Haven, Connecticut. There he helped him with his writing and made him better. Faulkner became interested in the war in Europe, so he joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1918 and trained as a pilot in the first Royal Canadian Air Force. He had tried to enlist in the U.S. forces earlier but was rejected due to him only being five foot three inches. To join the Royal Canadian Air Force Faulkner had to lie about a number of things, such as where he was born and his last name. He changed Falkner to Faulkner to make himself seem more British. In 1919 Faulkner had enrolled to the University of Mississippi to further is career and education in writing, in 1924 Stone had shown some of Faulkner's work to a publisher, and in 1926 Faulkner had succeeded in getting his first novel,

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