The most prestigious awards, of course, are the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he received for the year 1949 (but which he did not actually receive until 1950), and the two Pulitzer Prizes for A Fable and The Reivers. In addition, he won numerous other awards, especially late in his career. Several of his short stories won awards, such as the O. Henry Short Story Prize.

When he was born, William Faulkner’s last name was “Falkner”; at some point, however, he changed its spelling to “Faulkner.” Several stories account for the change - one claims that it was a typographical error on publication of one of his early works, but the more likely story seems to be that he spelled it “Faulkner” when he joined the Royal Air Force in Canada during World War I, after having been rejected from the U.S. Army because of his size.

In a word, yes. While in Hollywood, Faulkner started a relationship with Meta Carpenter, a secretary for his friend and colleague Howard Hawks, with whom Faulkner usually worked. She was a native of Mississippi, and in fact she had met Faulkner many years before while passing through Oxford. Their relationship lasted for nearly twenty years. Later, Faulkner also had an affair with Joan Williams, a young writer whom he considered a prot?g?.

It has become something of a trend to discover some ironic fault or failing among geniuses, perhaps the most common of which is Albert Einstein's trouble with algebra. Faulkner, too, exhibits a few such ironic shortcomings. For instance, he never graduated high school - his final months of high school were mainly for athletics (he was quarterback of his high school football team). To my knowledge, however, he never "failed" English.

It was once more or less assumed that “Yoknapatawpha” was a word coined by Faulkner, but more recently, scholars have noted that the word apparently comes from Chickasaw words meaning “split land.” According to Faulkner, the word means “slow water running through the flatland.” The Yocona River - an actual river in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner lived-is an abridged form of “Yoknapatawpha.

For a long time, Oxford residents seemed to regard Faulkner as a kind of harmless eccentric - one nickname he was known by was “the Count” because of his apparent haughtiness. Later, the nickname expanded to “Count No-Count,” alluding to his apparent shiftlessness. When he began writing the great novels, most Oxford residents barely noticed - but at least one novel did pique their interest as well as their ire.

Franklin was a member of the learned societies of many nations. Among these were the Royal Society, which awarded him its prestigious Copley medal for his work in electricity (1753); and the American Philosophical Society, of which he was a founder. He received several honorary degrees, including a doctorate from St. Andrews.

A great deal. Much of Faulkner’s own family history makes its way into the fiction, just as places and events in his fiction seem patterned on real-life places and events in Oxford. The characters of Col. John Sartoris and Thomas Sutpen, for example, are based in part on Faulkner’s great-grandfather and namesake, William Clark Falkner. Like Sutpen, William Clark Falkner ran away from home at the age of fourteen with the intent of making his fortune.

Faulkner bought the house in 1930, but the history of the house dates back to the early history of Oxford, when it was built by Robert Shegogg around 1848. The architecture of the house was not unique in Oxford; several houses built from the same design are in fact still standing in Oxford today. When Faulkner bought the house, it was virtually dilapidated; Faulkner continued to renovate the house for years afterward.

Besides being a 1971 Newbery Honor Book, Enchantress from the Stars later won the Children's Literature Association's 1990 Phoenix Award, which is given each year "from the perspective of time" to a children's book first published 20 years prior to the award's presentation, and it was a finalist for the 2002 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Rediscovery category. This Star Shall Abide won a 1973 Christopher Award for "affirmation of the highest values of the human spirit."

The Joe Grey novels have won seven Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers Association, and now one of them has won the new World's Best Cat Litter-ary Award, too. Earlier, for my children's books, I received a Parents' Choice Award and five Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists Awards.

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Yes, as long as they meet the other eligibility criteria as listed in the RFA (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-07-005.html).

Paul didn't consciously start out as a writer. It just happened. "One summer, I didn't have a job, so I started to write." He cited that "Measure for Measure," by Robin Phillips, 'knocked him out.' He mentions playwrights Shepard, Pinter, Bond, as well as Sharon Pollock, David French, John Murrell, Michel Tremblay, as influences in his writing career. "The more they write, the more evident the craft is; you can see the growth, the ease. I have no craft yet.

far as GURPS goes, I started out writing articles for Roleplayer, the old GURPS magazine/newsletter. That caught the attention of C. Lee Graham, the (then) Central Mailer of All of the Above, and he invited me to join. My AotA work made me known to Loyd Blankenship, and he invited me to do development work on GURPS Grimoire, and got me my contract for GURPS Russia (and also hired me to write lots of Hot Lead material that will probably never see the light of day).

He waited tables, in a Whyte Avenue (Calgary) diner, and described himself as "the world's worst waiter." (Edmonton Express, 10 June 1996) However, those days of waiting tables did prove handy experience for his role as Brian Hawkins in the miniseries Tales of the City. He also worked as a "gofer" at age 15/16 at the Stratford festival box office, a job he obtained through a student grant.

Yes, two separate ones. In my youth I taught 4th grade for a year; that was what I had trained for in college, what I'd always thought I wanted. I also hoped to become a camp director; I had been a counselor or unit director at several camps (my favorite was Camp Sweyolakan on Coeur d'Alene Lake in Idaho) and then in the summer of 1956 I was resident director of a small camp in Oregon. But I found I wasn't suited to teaching, so I no longer had summers free for camp work.

That's a tough question. I enjoyed writing the chapter on Grandma's cats, and the chapter on the piece of crap pick-up truck that I acquired. Both made me laugh out loud as I was writing them.

A.: Well, let's see. That would be some time during late 1988, when I was still a computer programmer-analyst but in the process of realizing that I didn't enjoy my work and couldn't envision doing it day after day for the rest of my life. I had begun to read again--something I'd gotten away from since childhood and undergrad days in India--and wanted to try my hand at writing too.

Heinlein won four Hugo awards for best novel (an unmatched record), the first Grand Master Nebula ever awarded, the Sequoyah award for best novel for young people, and was nominated for a dozen more major awards. All of his awards and nominations were for novels; his short-fiction days largely predated the major science fiction awards. However, some awards for past years are now being issued (the "Retro Hugos," for example) and Heinlein's list of awards has continued to grow.