William Faulkner
(1897-1962)
| 1897 (September 25) Faulkner born in New Albany Mississippi (WF). | 1897 The battleship Maine explodes in Havana as the Spanish American War approaches (AAH xv) |
| 1901 President Kinley assasinated at World Trade Expo (DC). | |
| 1915 Faulkner drops out of high school for (at the least) the third and final time (LWF 380). | |
| 1917 U.S. Enters World War I (TAH 294). | |
| 1918 Faulkner tries to enlist in U.S. Army but is rejected. Later joins Royal Air Force cadet training program in Canada. Sees no action in war, but later claims to have been wounded and had a metal plate medically inserted into his head (LWF 380). | |
Works Cited
AAH: Schlesinger, Arthur ed. The Almanac of American History. Greenwich, CT: Bison Books, 1983.
CF: Weinstein, Philip M. ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
DC: Campbell, Donna. American Literature Timeline. Seattle: Gonzaga University, 2000. 15 March 2003 <http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/timefram.html>.
LWF. Gray, Richard. The Life of William Faulkner. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
TAH: Udang, Lawrence. The Timetables of American History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.