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          A one volume abridgement of the first major biography of Washington by John Marshall who became the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court..

          William Faulkner was 59 years old.

          William Faulkner Biography

          Born: September 25, 1897
          New Albany, Mississippi
          Died: July 6, 1962
          Byhalia, Mississippi
          American author

          William Faulkner, a major American twentieth-century author, wrote historical novels portraying the decline and decay of the upper crust of Southern society.

          The imaginative power and psychological depth of his work ranks him as one of America's greatest novelists. He also received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.

          Youth and experience

          William Cuthbert Falkner (as the family spelled its name) was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi.

          Life of George Washington by Robert Faulkner, Paul Carrese.

        1. Author: Paul Carrese, Robert Faulkner.
        2. A one volume abridgement of the first major biography of Washington by John Marshall who became the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
        3. William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer.
        4. William Faulkner emerged from the ravaged South―half backwoods, half defeated empire―transforming his corner of Mississippi into the fictional Yoknapatawpha.

          5. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, the oldest of four brothers. Both parents came from wealthy families reduced to poverty by the Civil War (1861–65; a war fought between the Northern and Southern states of the United States).

          A great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner, had written The White Rose of Memphis, a popular novel of the 1880s. William was named in