Mississippi，
september
25，1897—died
July
6，1962.
Enlisted
Royal Air
Force，
Canada，1918.Attended
University
of
Mississippi。Traveled
in Europe
1925—1926.Resident
of Oxford，
Mississippi，
where he
held
various
jobs while
trying to
establish
himself as
a
writer。First
published
novel，
Soldiers'Pay，1926.Writer
in
Residence
at the
University
of
Virginia
1957—1958.Awarded
the Nobel
Prize for
Literature
1950.
Light in
August，
Faulkner's
seventh
novel， was
frst
published
October
6，1932，by
Harrison
smith and
