William Faulkner Book summary

William Faulkner was born to a southern aristocratic family in New Albany, Mississippi to father Murry Falkner and Maud Butler on September 25, 1897. He was the eldest among four brothers and grew up in Oxford as his family relocated to the region during his childhood. He lived most of his life in the same region, although he spent a little time living in cities like New York and Paris. He worked several odd jobs before he began his literary career, and he wrote As I Lay Dying around the same time as he married his high school sweetheart. Faulkner changed his last name before the beginning of his literary career, and some claim that it had occurred due to the error of a typist. Faulkner received literary success after his sixth book, and he continued to write late into his life.