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ABSALOM ABSALOM! - WILLIAM FAULKNER TASCHENBUCH

Born in 1897 in New Albany  Mississippi  William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of
their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford  Mississippi  and left
high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915 
he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF  but was still in training when the war ended.
Returning home he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925.
His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early
novels followed  but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in
1929. As I Lay Dying (1930)  Sanctuary (1931)  Light in August (1932)  Absalom  Absalom! (1936)
and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder
in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s  he worked in Hollywood on film scripts  notably The Blue
Lamp  co-written with Raymond Chandler.  William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.

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