Faulkner worked on the screen play of the 1945 movie "To Have and Have Not", which was based on Hemingway's novel.
Faulkner worked on the screenplay of the movie, "The Big Sleep", in 1945, which was based on Chandler's novel.
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Ford claims Faulkner as an important influence on his work.
According to Kirkus reviews (9/01/1999), Gay's novel contains a number of similarities to Faulkner's novels about the Snopes family, among them a character--Dallas Hardin--who is a "copy" of Faulkner's Flem Snopes..
In his biography CHESTER HIMES: A LIFE, James Sallis states that Chester Himes looked to William Faulkner's "ripe violence and absurdist view of life" for inspiration in constructing his own slightly surreal, rough-and-tumble novels.
Carey names Faulkner as one of his major influences.
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Both Styron and Faulkner are white Southern males who have written about the experience of being black, and specifically about slavery.
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"I'm old fashioned and probably a little mad too; I don't like having my private life and affairs available to just any and everyone who has the price of the vehicle it's printed in...."
"A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others."
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William Faulkner was born in Mississippi, where he lived most of his life. He had little formal education. He dropped out of high school in 10th grade and joined the Canadian Air Force, just missing World War I. He was later admitted to the University of Mississippi as a special student, but dropped out after a year to write for a newspaper in New Orleans, where he also wrote fiction and published his first novel, SOLDIERS' PAY. After a brief trip to Europe in his late 20s, he settled down in Mi more...
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09/25/1897 Mississippi, Southeastern States, Southern States, United States,
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Beautiful writing, really disturbing story.