Writer and Nobel Prize winner William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. Faulkner was the first of Murry Cuthbert's four sons Falkner and Maud Butler. His family moved to Oxford when he was around five years old, and Faulkner spent most of his life there. Faulkner was successful early in life, but during fifth grade he lost interest in school and began missing classes. He did not graduate from high school and was later able to attend the University of Mississippi at Oxford, but dropped out after three semesters. He is known as one of the most famous Southern literary writers, primarily for his novels and poetry. William Faulkner's literary career was influenced by Southern culture and values, beliefs about slavery, the Civil War, and dominant white male culture. One of William Faulkner's influences on his work was Southern culture and values. The south is present in most of his stories. Faulkner uses the same cities, like Jefferson or Yoknapatawpha County. In the book Southern Renaissance: The Literature of the Modern South, authors Luis D. Rubin Jr. and Robert D. Jacobs describe Jefferson as follows: "In Jefferson, possession and achievement are taken for granted, seen as results inevitable of being. The being, that is, a man, a white being…, in terms of attributes that other cultures may regard as mere products of experience..." (Rubin & Jacobs, 108) In Faulkner's, A Rose for Emily (also set in Jefferson), Emily Grierson refuses to pay taxes, and Faulkner states: "Colonel Sartoris invented an elaborate story that Miss Emily's father had lent money to the town..." (Faulkner 79) In return, Colonel Sartoris tried to renounce Emily'...... middle of paper ......dare For Emily'." Studies In Short Fiction 36.3 (1999): 251. MasterFILE Premier. Web. December 9. 2013. Faulkner, William. Come Down, Moses New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Print. “Great Authors: William Faulkner: Faulkner's Writing and Its Impact, December 9, 2013., Douglas T. “Faulkner and the Civil War: Myth and Reality.” American Quarterly 15.1 (1963): 200-209. Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (HW Wilson, December 9, 2013). , Louis Decimus and Robert D. Jacobs. Southern Renaissance: Literature of the Modern South, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953. Print. "William Faulkner Foundation, February 12, 2013. Web December 9.. 2013. .