After the break out of World War One, he enlisted in the army and became a pilot of British Royal air force. However, before long the war ended. He didn’t finish his training and then came back home. After that, he poured his personal imagination, along with the anecdotes in the war, he created verses like Lilac Flower, November 11, etc and short stories, such as Victory and Honor. On August 6, 1919, he announced his first article on New Republican, The Poem of an Agriculture Herding Absolute Being, which has the obvious mimicry trace to French symbolism verse. At the same year, as a “special student” studied in the Mississippi University, he took French, Spanish and English literature as elective courses.
In the year of 1921, he arrived at New York and worked as a salesman in a bookstore for a few months. But he went back to hometown in the end of 1921
In 1924, he published his first poem collection The Marble Faun.
The next year, 1925, Faulkner came to the central city of southern American culture — New Orleans. He made some friends there, who were celebrities in the cultural circles and art circles. One of them was the famous novelist Sherwood Anderson. With the help of Anderson, Faulkner published the novel Soldiers’ Pay with lost feeling of the retired soldiers for subject. From July, 1925, Faulkner had visited some countries in Europe, including Italy, France, and England. He experienced the diversity of abundant European culture毕业论文http://www.youerw.com/
Form the years 1929 to 1942 inclusive, Faulkner reached his writing peak in these 13 years. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. It had settled William Faulkner’s position as a great novelist. It is in the same year, he finished his writing of Sanctuary and as I lay dying.原文请+QQ752018766 优.文^论,文'网
Faulkner’s contract with the Hollywood industry expired in May 1933, and In June, his wife gave birth to Faulkner’s only surviving daughter, Jill. And Faulkner published his poem collection A Green Bough.
The following winter, Faulkner wrote to his publisher that he was working on a new novel whose working title, like Light in August before, was Dark House. He wrote, “The theme is a man who outraged the land, and the land then turned and destroyed the man’s family. Quentin Compson, character of The Sound and Fury, tells it, or ties it together; he is the protagonist so that it is not complete apocrypha.”
Absalom, Absolam! was another great Southern novel to William Faulkner., which was published by the author in 1936. Along with The Sound and the Fury, it helped Faulkner win the Nobel Prize in literature.
During 1938 to 1942, The Unvanquished and The Wild Palms were both published. And Faulkner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters due to the latter one in 1939. The truly peculiar one of Snopes(斯诺普斯) trilogy -- The Hamlet was published in 1940. Go Down, Moses is a collection of seven related pieces of short fiction by Faulkner in 1942. It is considered one of the best southern novels of Faulkner.