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As i lay faulkner6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() At some point in this period of writing, around 1930, William Faulkner wrote the novel As I Lay Dying. Often in this series of novels, one could read of characters who were based on Faulkner’s ancestors, African Americans, Native Americans, hermits, and poor whites. After a trip to Europe, Faulkner began to write about the fictitious Yoknapatawpha County, which was representative of Lafayette County, Mississippi. In 1925 Faulkner moved to New Orleans and worked as a journalist, where he met the American Sherwood Andersen, a famous short-story writer.Īnderson convinced Faulkner that writing about the people and places he could identify with would improve his career as a writer. William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi where he became a high school dropout and was forced to work with grandfather at a bank. ![]()
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