Fun with Faulkner

I thought it was interesting how Faulkner never had a high school or college degree and struggled during the Great Depression yet he still wrote a book so renowned as The Sound and the Fury. It's also kind of ironic how he was so tiny, at 5'6, and is so widely known. One of my favorite parts of learning about Faulkner was actually how the spelling of his name changed from Falkner to Faulkner by a typing error in employee records. It's also pretty impressive that he was able to enroll in a college without receiving his high school diploma. Overall I think Faulkner sounds a lot different than other writers because he seemed so 'normal'. He didn't have a very good education and he drank a lot and yet he wrote very famous works that people still read today.