I. Life and Career
Born in Albany Mississippi; 4-5 moved to Oxford,
Mississippi, model of his fictional Jefferson,
Yoknapatawpha county, his family members prototypes
for his fictional characters.
1925, first novel published, Soldier’s Pay 《军饷》
1929, two novels: Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury
1929-1942, most productive: 2 short-story collections, a
volume of poetry, 11 novels
Early 1940s, forgotten by the public
1945, a second rise to fame, higher than the first
1949, Nobel Prize for Literature