To further understand the background of the novelist William Faulkner, I did research on his life before and during his writing career. As a young man, Faulkner never finished high school, but was a fantastic story teller from a young age. Later in his life, he wanted to fight in World War II. Although he didn't meet the hight requirement he went to Canada in order to be accepted. From this experience, Faulkner made up stories that he told to his family and friends. After this point in his life, he became and alcoholic, but was ecstatic when is lover divorced her husband for him. Even without finishing high school, he soon became a prosperous author. In 1929, he wrote The Sound and the Fury as his first profitable novel. Previously in 1920, he attended to his studies at Ole Miss college, but he soon dropped out. Overall, William Faulkner was a tremendous story teller who's hard life of losing his love to another man, alcoholism, and inability to enter the army led to his grand novels.