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William Faulkner was born September 25, 1897 and spent most of his life in the South he was born in New Albany, Mississippi, he wrote mostly about his family, community, and the people he knew. The intriguing man that he is, he once created the "Yoknapatawpha County" a fake town which included Southern white aristocrats, poor whites, persecuted blacks, etc. It comes from Chickasaw words meaning "split land". Once when Faulkner was turned away from joinging the U.S. Army for WWI, in turn he joined the Royal Air Force in Canada but the war ended before Faulkner finished his training. Faulkner was not an alcoholic however he was a binge drinker and his drinking binges lasted for days, or sometimes weeks, and his habit was to continue drinking until he passed out. Faulkner also was married to Estelle Oldham however he did cheat on his wife while he was in Hollywood with Meta Carpenter a secretary for his friend and colleague Howard Hawks, she was a native of Mississippi and heir relationship lasted nearly twenty years. Lastly, Faulkner also won the Nobel Prize for Literature which he received in 1949 and two Pulitzer Prizes for A Fable and The Reivers. 

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