![]() Therefore, readers had difficulty following these novels, and Faulkner’s popularity soon dwindled, that is until Malcolm Cowley wrote The Portable Faulkner, which contained excerpts from the Yoknapatawpha series, and made Faulkner’s genius evident to his readers. In this book, and others of this series, it was commonplace to find sentences that stretched on for a page in order to create mood, multiple narrators, or short stories complicated with a stream-of-consciousness blather that was hard to understand. 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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