So my research on Faulkner has taken me about 2 min so far. If you have done any more than that you might consider leaving. I've established he's really smart, not racist, and the author of the book the sound and the fury. He also had a basic grasp of Chipewa. He could probably at least spell the language right. He liked to drink when he was finished writing, and had sex outside of marriage. He won the nobel prize in literature and gave a really great speech in a southern accent that nobody could hear. I scanned it and it looks like it is probably worth your time. And its only 553 words assuming I counted correctly.
At this point I have spent a whole 15 min reading about Faulkner. I found some more information about his drinking habits. In 1924 he was removed from his position as scoutmaster for drinking. For those of you who are experts in American history you know that from 1920 to 1933 drinking was illegal. So he violated a constitutional amendment while head of a boy scout league. I think that's what a scoutmaster is at least. In 1937 he apparently burned his back in an exceptionally impressive bout of drinking. In 1962 he suffered two successive falls off of a horse. Ouch. The second time he suffered a serious injury and died of a heart attack less than a month later. I'm almost excited to get started.
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