William Cuthbert Falkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Falkner (1870 - 1932) and Maud Butler (1871 - 1960).His family was upper middle-class, but "not quite of the old feudal cotton aristocracy".After Maud rejected Murry's plan to become a rancher in Texas, the family moved to Oxford, Mississippi in 1902, where Faulkner's father later became the business manager of the University of Mississippi.Besides short periods elsewhere, Faulkner lived in Oxford for the rest of his life. His family, particularly his mother Maud, his maternal grandmother Lelia Butler, and Caroline "Callie" Barr (the African American nanny who raised him from infancy) influenced the development of Falkner's artistic imagination. Both his mother and his grandmother were avid readers as well as painters and photographers, educating him in...
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