William Faulkner Flashcards
When did Faulkner try to enlist in the air corps?
Spring 1918
What school did Faulkner publish illustrations and poems in the university year book in 1916?
University of Mississippi
Why was Faulkner turned down from the air corps?
Because he was too short, just a little over 5’5 and too slight
Whose engagement motivated Faulkner to joint the Royal Canadian Air Force?
The engagement of his sweetheart, Estelle Oldham to another man
How did Faulkner get into the Royal Canadian Air Corps?
By forging documents to make himself appear as an Englishman and changing his name from Falkner to Faulkner
Where did Faulkner train from July to November 1918?
In Toronto
When did Faulkner enroll in the University of Mississippi?
September 1919
When did Faulkner drop out of the University of Mississippi?
November 1920
Who eventually married Sherwood Anderson?
Elizabeth Prall
Who did Faulkner read while in New York?
Conrad Aiken, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.D., Eugene O’Niell and William Carlos Williams
When did Faulkner publish his first book and meet Sherwood Anderson
In 1924
What was the name of William Faulkner’s first book?
The Marble Faun, it was a work of poems
What was New Orleans’s vital literary magazine encouraging cultural revival?
The Double Dealer
What was Hemingway’s first publication?
A Divine Gesture which appeared in the May 1922 of The Double Dealer
What was the title of Faulkner’s collection of works about city life in New Orleans in 1925?
New Orleans
What other magazine did Faulkner publish in while staying in New Orleans?
Times Picayune
What was Faulkner’s first novel?
Soldier’s Pay
What is a Soldier’s Pay about?
A wounded aviator who returns to his homes in Georgia who returns to his home in Georgia at the end of the war
What countries did Faulkner tour after landing in Genoa in August 1925?
Italy, Switzerland and France
Who was the only literary man that Faulkner met in Paris?
James Joyce
What was Faulkner’s second book?
Mosquitoes with Liveright
What novel of Faulkner’s did Liveright reject in 1927?
Flags in the Dust
What did Faulkner rewrite Flags in the Dust as?
Sartoris
What foreword of Faulkner’s annoyed Sherwood Anderson?
The foreword to William Spratling’s Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles
What was Faulkner’s Flags in the Dust about?
About characters from the southern Mississippi delta who inhabited a county named Yoknapatwpha and a town called Jefferson based on Winesburg, Ohio
What real town was the town of Jefferson in Flags in the Dust inspired by?
Winesburg, Ohio
What was Faulkner’s masterpiece that he worked on in 1928?
The Sound and the Fury
Who published Sartoris?
Harcourt Brace
Who published The Sound and the Fury?
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith in October 1928
What short storied did Faulkner publish?
As I Lay Ding, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms
When was All the Dead Pilots first accepted?
When Faulkner included it in his first collection of stories, These Thirteen in 1931
Who did Faulkner marry in June 1929?
His childhood sweetheart Estelle
What did Faulkner name a crumbling mansion in Oxford, Mississippi he bought in April 1930?
Rowan Oak
What magazine favorably compared Faulkner to Anderson, Hemingway and others?
Contempo: A review of Books and Personalities
When did Faulkner work in Hollywood?
From the 1930’s to 11945
What work of Hemingway was Faulkner assigned to be the scriptwriter for?
To Have and Have Not
Who did Faulkner write a letter to calling Hollywood a salt mine?
Malcolm Crowley
What work of Raymond Chandler’s did Faulkner work on?
The Big Sleep in the spring and summer of 1944
What work of Faulkner’s was interrupted by his work on To Have and Have Not and The Great Sleep?
A Fable
Who did Faulkner have a contract with in Hollywood?
Warner Brothers
How many works of Faulkner’s did Hemingway have in his library?
15 works
When did Faulkner receive the Nobel Prize?
In December 1950
What Humphrey Bogart picture did Faulkner work on in the 1950’s?
The Left Hand of God
Why did Faulkner’s work on The Fable slow in the 1950’s?
Because of physical problems as a result of his alcoholism
Who did Faulkner refuse to debate segregation with?
NAACP leader W.E.B. Debois
Where did Faulkner have a position as writer in residence in 1957?
The University of Virginia
When did Faulkner die and of what?
On July 6, 1962 of a coronary occlusion
How many stories did Faulkner write wit World War One as their subject?
Six
When was All the Dead Pilots first sent out?
February 1930
What was the original title of All the Dead Pilots?
Per Ardua
What was Per Ardua
The first part of the motto of the Royal Air Force, Per Ardua ad astra or Through adversity to the starrs
What Faulkner story was based on World War One and published in American Caravan in March 1931?
Ad Astra
When did Faulkner place All The Dead Pilots in a section called The Wasteland?
In 1950 Collected Editions
How many section is All The Dead Pilots Structured in?
Seven sections
What does All the Dead Pilots start of with?
An anonymous war veteran thinking about the closing days of the First World War
Who competes with the squadron commander compete with for women in London and France?
John Sartoris
What does the first section of All the Dead Pilots question?
The idea of heroism
What does All The Dead Pilots reveal about the narrator?
That he lost a leg, was a pilot and is trying to get used to a mechanical one while relegated to desk duty as censoring squadron mail
What quotation does All the Dead Pilots refer to from Horace?
Pro Patria
What happens in All the Dead Pilots?
Sartoris tries to trip Spomer who was sleeping with is girl in Amiens
How many words does Satoris have in his vocabulary?
About 200
What does the narrator want to portray Sartoris as?
Dumb and silly in life while heroic in death
How does Sartoris try to track Spoomer?
By releasing his dog when he suspects Spoomer of having gone to Amiens
What happens during the German bombardment of Amiens?
Satoris dresses up an unconscious ambulance driver in Spoomer’s clothes and when Spoomer returns in women’s clothes he is sent back to England for dereliction of duty
When does Sartoris die?
In July 1918
Who are Johnny Satoris’s ancestors?
John Satoris and Bayard Satoris
What war does Faulkner link World War One to?
The Civil War
What are the letters in the mail at the end of All the Dead Pilots?
A letter from John to his aunt in Jefferson, Mississippi; a package with Sartoris effect’s; a letter from the Major announcing Satoris’s death and burial place; letters from his great aunt
What is the irony about Satoris’s death on Independence Day?
His aunt lames the war on the Yankees
Who was Spoomer’s uncle?
A Corps commander
What airplanes did the pilots in All the Dead Pilots fly?
Camels
What was the nickname of Sartoris’s girl?
Kitchener
