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Born in late 1897, William Faulkner was a famous prolific writer who has been regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Faulkner came from an old southern family, growing up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British Royal Air Force during World War I, and studied for a while at the University of Mississippi. He also temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. He is remembered for being both a Southern gentleman and an arrogant alcoholic, perhaps shedding light onto his volatile and unique writing styles. Faulkner had many novels published between the 1920s and the 1940s, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Faulkner is best known for his use of "stream of consciousness" in his writing, a style used in the critically acclaimed Southern Gothic novel The Sound and The Fury. This novel is considered to be his first great work.
Released in 1929, The Sound and The Fury takes......

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