William Faulkner's childhood

William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He was the oldest of four brothers and was raised in oxford Mississippi. His parents, Murry Falkner and Maud Butler Faulkner, named him after his paternal great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, an adventurous and shrewd man who seven years prior was shot dead in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi. Throughout his life, William Clark Falkner worked as a railroad financier, politician, soldier, farmer, businessman, lawyer.  Faulkner learned how to fish, hunt and was very adventurous. Faulkner mother embraced his creativity and taught him how to read  and allowed him to be creative. He grew up and appreciated the church and the arts, thus his exposure to Charles Dickens and others. He never graduated from high school, but enrolled in the University of Mississippi. Many of his creative writing and poems were published in the school's journal and although his creativity exceled he dropped out of college.  Faulkner knew school was not for him, he just wanted to be creative and write and that's what he did