He called it "Sanctuary." When the book was ready to be published, Faulkner went to New York and completely rewrote it.

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Instead of remaining in Paris, as many American writers did, Faulkner returned to Mississippi and began his serious writing.

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Yet,he said,the unevenness shows that Faulkner was willing to take risks, to explore new material, and new ways to talk about it.

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Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

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The critic Malcolm Cowley says, Faulkner's "early novels had been praised too much, usually for the wrong reasons.

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Faulkner said he saw in his mind a dirty little girl playing in front of her house.

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For Faulkner, Popeye represents everything that is wrong with modern society and its concern with economic capitalism.

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From this small beginning, Faulkner developed a story about the Compson family, told in four different voices.

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Do you see now.'" The American writer, Robert Penn Warren says about Faulkner, "The important thing is the presence of the idea of truth.

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After Faulkner, few northerners were brave enough to write about a South they did not know.

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In Faulkner's story called "The Bear" a group of men are talking after the day's hunt.

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The critic Malcolm Cowley says, "Others might say that Faulkner was not so much writing stories for the public as telling them to himself.

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I'm a lady." Some of the people Faulkner creates, like Reverend Hightower in "Light in August,"

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In nineteen forty-six, Malcolm Cowley collected some of Faulkner's writings and wrote a report about him.

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From him,Faulkner learned some of the reasons people act in the strange way they often do.

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He also told Faulkner he would find a publisher for the novel Faulkner was writing.

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Faulkner ties the three levels of individual psychology, social history and tragedy into a whole.

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As Malcolm Cowley shows, all of Faulkner's people, black or white,act in a similar way.

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Faulkner has been accused of looking back to a time when life was better.

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And I'm Faith Lapidus. Join us again next week for the rest of the story about William Faulkner on People in America in VOA Special English.

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Today,we begin the story of the life of a famous Southern writer, William Faulkner.

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It would not be remembered today if it were not for Faulkner's later work.

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She calls him "that man." Faulkner says that nothing can be had without love.

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This is the changing South that Faulkner describes in the area he created.

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