Photo de stock - Jul. 07, 1962 - 80th birthday of William Faulkner on would be the 80th birthday of William Faulkner (our picture) , the famous American author. The writer, born in Albany (Miss) he studied in Oxford in great Britain and in Oxford in Mississippi and was hurt in the British air force during the first world war - combined in his books, by using all means of style, drastic realism with social critic. The scene of his stories, in which race - and family conflicts play an important role, is mostly his home, the south of northerner America. the well known books of Williamson Faulkner, to whom was awarded the literature Nobel prize in 1949, are the stories 'As I Lay dying ', sanctuary, light in August', 'Pylon', 'Absalom. Absalom', 'Intruder' in the dust', 'Requiem for a nun', 'A fable ', snopes trilogy 'The hamlet' / 'The town' /The mansion', The rivers', the tale 'Go down, Moses', beside these poems and Essays. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)