General+Knowledge+About+Faulkner+and+His+Speech

=**__General Knowledge About William Faulkner__**=

__The below information is from http://www.egs.edu/library/william-faulkner/biography/:__
 * Born on September 25, 1897
 * Born in New Albany Mississippi
 * Family **was** wealthy
 * American Civil War caused Faulkner's family to become like many other Southern families at the time
 * Caused his family to move to Oxford, Mississippi which Faulkner later used as his setting in one of his works
 * Dropped out of High School
 * Began to work at a bank and sparked an interest in writing
 * Styled poems after Edward FitzGerald, A. E. Housman, John Keats, and Algernon Swinburne and addressed them to Estelle Oldham*
 * *Married her in 1929
 * Famous Author
 * First Book: //The Marble Faun//
 * Didn't have good sales
 * Important works:
 * Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950
 * Gave a famous speech I think....

=**__General Knowledge About Faulkner's Speech__**=
 * Given in 1950
 * Audience: The mass of people at the time, but also to the future generations by warning them about nuclear danger.
 * Purpose: To urge the people of the time to move forward and power through the Uncertainty from the World Wars
 * Speaker: William Faulkner
 * Context: Faulkner has won a Nobel Prize for Literature, and he is accepting his award with the speech.