William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897.
He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962..
In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy and published a poetry collection in 1924 at his own expense.
William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897