William Faulkner was a great American writer of the twentieth century.
His first 30 years of life were marked by defeat and instability. In 1915, he left secondary school to begin his apprenticeship in banking. In 1918, he participated in the First World War as a Canadian Air Force cadet, interrupted his studies of literature and began to accept several occasional works, some of them in the area of journalism. Faulkner always interpreted the society of his day very well and knew that the population was traumatized by the horrors of war. For this reason, he believed that the greatest cultural influence of his day was the fear of universal war.
He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
