Having dropped out of high school in 1915, none the less, Faulkner became a Nobel Prize Laureate 34 years later.

This native of in New Albany, Mississipi, joined the Royal Air Force during World War II, worked as postmaster at the University of Mississippi, temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper, performed all kind of odd jobs and wrote some "Mississippi Poems" before publishing his first novel in 1926 - Soldiers' Pay , with little success.