Willian faulkner was an American writer born in 1897 in the state of Mississippi. His family was a traditional southern family of five children of whom William was the oldest.
His childhood was spent in the small town of Oxford, and the presence of that North American South, through its characters, their way of being, speaking and thinking, will later be noticed in all of the writer's works.
During the World War I He entered as a pilot of the Royal British Air Force, but there are many doubts about what his role was during the war given the natural tendency to faulkner to fable.
His first jobs were at his grandfather's bank, then as a (wall) painter and then as a postman. Over time Fulkner got jobs more related to literature, the first as a journalist in New Orleans.
His first novel, Soldiers' pay, published it in 1926.
Then he took a trip through Europe where he met, among others, his admired James Joyce.
When he returned to the United States, his next novels were set in yoknapatawpha, a fictional, writer-created territory that has inspired writers like Onetti (to create your Santa Maria), to García Márquez (his Macondo) and many others.
The first novel that takes place in yoknapatawpha was Sartoris in 1929, but many other works followed (novels and short stories) in whose pages the lives of its imaginary inhabitants mix and re-mix, where roads cross and gazes multiply.
As of the publication of The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner came to be considered a teacher. Meanwhile, he had married Estelle oldham, with whom he believed to live in the small town of Oxford.
It must be said that although it was possible for him to edit his works, he was never a writer too well known by the general public, and even today the average American does not know who he is. faulkner.
During the following years he made a living as a screenwriter in Hollywood, until in 1949 he received the Literature Nobel.
In his works the extraordinary command of language and technique stands out. The most conspicuous example of this is his long sentences, sometimes three or four pages long, with numerous digressions, parentheses, and subordinate phrases. But the leaps in time and alternations in the narrator's point of view are also dazzling.
In a way, his style was opposed to the style of Hemingway and its characteristic short phrases (they say that Hemingway I send him a telegram that said: "I will change one of your long sentences for two of my short sentences"). However, other things united them: alcohol, the life they dedicated to writing, in addition to being and thinking like Americans.
faulkner He continued to write (and his production was very rough) until he died (until he returned to the land of that south that he loved so much) in 1962.