William Faulkner's View Of Racism

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William Faulkner was born to an old southern family on Sept. 25, 1897 in New Albany but grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. William attended Ole Miss in 1919 but dropped out in 1920, and went to the University of Mississippi. Faulkner also wanted to join the United States Army but was turned down due to his height and instead joined the British Royal Flying Corps. William Faulkner didn’t start writing books until 1925 in which he wrote his first novel Soldiers’ Pay. William Faulkner influenced the understanding of Racism through his literary works including Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, and Absalom! Absalom! William Faulkner first started to influence the understanding of Racism in the Light in August by writing the story
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