28 moments

1. Birth in New Albany

   1897-09-25 · New Albany, Mississippi, United States

   William Cuthbert Falkner, later William Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippi.

2. Family move to Oxford

   1902-01-01 · Oxford, Mississippi, United States

   

   Faulkner moved with his family to Oxford, the north-Mississippi town that became his principal lifelong home and the geographic foundation of much of his fiction. The source gives the year, not a more precise date.

3. Living at Yale with Phil Stone

   1918-01-01 · Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

   On his first trip to the North, Faulkner lived with his friend and mentor Phil Stone at Yale. The source specifies spring 1918; JSON date precision is limited to year, month, or day.

4. Royal Air Force recruit-depot training

   1918-01-01 · Royal Air Force recruit depot, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

   

   During the First World War, Faulkner trained at the Royal Air Force recruit depot in Toronto and did not serve overseas in combat. The precise depot site is not identified in the source; coordinates represent Toronto.

5. Royal Air Force enlistment

   1918-07-10 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

   

   Faulkner enlisted in the Royal Air Force (Canada) and began his Canadian military training period in Toronto.

6. Return to Oxford after discharge

   1918-12-01 · Oxford, Mississippi, United States

   

   After his Canadian training period, Faulkner returned to Oxford in December 1918.

7. University of Mississippi student

   1919-01-01 · University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States

   

   Faulkner enrolled at the University of Mississippi, where he studied for three semesters before leaving in November 1920. Enrollment year is supported; the source does not give an enrollment day or month.

8. St. Peter Street apartment

   1925-01-01 · St. Peter Street, French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

   

   Faulkner shared a St. Peter Street apartment in New Orleans with architect and artist William Spratling. The exact street address is not supplied by the source; coordinates are a representative point on St. Peter Street in the French Quarter.

9. Writing Soldiers' Pay in New Orleans

   1925-01-01 · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

   

   Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, while in New Orleans. The source supports the year through its surrounding 1925 context.

10. French Quarter residence

    1925-03-01 · French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

    

    Faulkner lived in New Orleans's French Quarter during the period in which his work shifted from poetry toward prose. The source supports March 1925 as the start of this residence.

11. University Power House night work

    1929-01-01 · University of Mississippi Power House, Oxford, Mississippi, United States

    

    While working night shifts at the University of Mississippi Power House, Faulkner began writing As I Lay Dying. Coordinates represent the University of Mississippi campus because the historical Power House site is not precisely identified by the source.

12. Hollywood screenwriting stays

    1932-01-01 · Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

    Faulkner's film work began a long, intermittent association with Hollywood and California. The quoted statement documents his stays in Hollywood but does not date each stay precisely; 1932 marks the beginning of his Hollywood employment.

13. Arrival for MGM screenwriting work

    1932-05-01 · Culver City, California, United States

    Faulkner arrived in Culver City to begin the Hollywood screenwriting work that intermittently supported his family for decades.

14. Nobel banquet speech

    1950-12-10 · Stockholm City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

    Faulkner delivered his Nobel banquet speech in Stockholm while accepting the belatedly awarded 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.

15. International Writers' Conference visit

    1954-08-08 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    

    Faulkner arrived in São Paulo to participate in the city's fourth-centenary events and the International Writers' Conference. The evidence is in Portuguese: it states that Faulkner disembarked in São Paulo on the afternoon of August 8, 1954.

16. England leg of diplomatic tour

    1955-01-01 · England, United Kingdom

    

    Faulkner traveled in England during his August-to-October state-sponsored international tour. The source does not identify a city; coordinates represent England.

17. France leg of diplomatic tour

    1955-01-01 · France

    

    Faulkner traveled in France during his August-to-October state-sponsored international tour. The source does not identify a city; coordinates represent France.

18. Germany leg of diplomatic tour

    1955-01-01 · Germany

    

    Faulkner traveled in Germany during his August-to-October state-sponsored international tour. The source does not identify a city; coordinates represent Germany.

19. Iceland leg of diplomatic tour

    1955-01-01 · Iceland

    

    Faulkner traveled in Iceland during his August-to-October state-sponsored international tour. The source does not identify a city; coordinates represent Iceland.

20. Italy leg of diplomatic tour

    1955-01-01 · Italy

    

    Faulkner traveled in Italy during his August-to-October state-sponsored international tour. The source does not identify a city; coordinates represent Italy.

21. Philippines leg of diplomatic tour

    1955-01-01 · Philippines

    

    Faulkner traveled in the Philippines during his August-to-October state-sponsored international tour. The source supports presence in the Philippines during the 1955 tour but does not identify a city; coordinates represent the country.

22. Nagano Seminar moderator

    1955-08-01 · Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

    

    Faulkner participated as moderator in the Nagano Seminar on American Literature for Japanese professors of English. The source identifies the 1955 seminar and place but does not provide its exact dates; August is supported by University of Virginia archival material identifying a State Department photograph of Faulkner in Japan in August 1955.

23. Tokyo arrival during Japanese cultural mission

    1955-08-01 · Tokyo, Japan

    

    Faulkner arrived in Tokyo during a U.S. cultural-exchange mission to Japan. The source's immediately surrounding text identifies the setting as Tokyo during Faulkner's 1955 Japan visit; the available evidence supports August 1955 rather than an arrival day.

24. First University of Virginia residency

    1957-02-01 · University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

    

    Faulkner arrived in Charlottesville to become the University of Virginia's first Writer-in-Residence.

25. Athens visit for Requiem for a Nun

    1957-03-01 · Athens, Greece

    

    During his first Virginia residency, Faulkner traveled to Athens on a State Department-sponsored tour connected with a Greek dramatization of Requiem for a Nun. A University of Virginia chronology identifies his departure for Greece as March 1957; the exact Athens-arrival day is not supplied.

26. Second University of Virginia residency

    1958-01-01 · University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

    

    Faulkner returned to Charlottesville for a second term as University of Virginia Writer-in-Residence. The source gives only the year for the second residency.

27. Venezuelan cultural mission

    1961-01-01 · Venezuela

    

    Faulkner made his final U.S. State Department-sanctioned cultural-ambassador mission in Venezuela, participating in a program of public and press events. The source identifies Venezuela and spring 1961 but does not provide a city; coordinates represent the country.

28. Death at Wright's Sanatorium

    1962-07-06 · Wright's Sanatorium, Byhalia, Mississippi, United States

    

    Faulkner died after a heart attack at Wright's Sanatorium in Byhalia, Mississippi. The historical sanatorium's precise site is not identified in the source; coordinates represent Byhalia.