Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould ( profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell ) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O ' Neill.

The World War I film was based on a short story by author William Faulkner, who Hawks got to know personally during the shooting of the film and remained friends with for over twenty years.

Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.

Mumia Abu-Jamal ( born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954 ) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

" Embroideries of all kinds " were offered through Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. catalogues, and church embroidery became and remained an important line of business for its successor companies into the twentieth century.

In 1861 Morris and some friends founded a company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., which, as supervised by the partners, designed and made decorative objects for homes, including wallpaper, textiles, furniture and stained glass.

Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.

MOVE continues to advocate for the release of jailed MOVE sympathizer and former resident of Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.

Faulkner theorised that without contact with members of the New Left or the Trotskyists, the two main Marxist currents in Britain that were critical of the Soviet Union at the time, Childe felt alone in his conflicting feelings about the country, and despaired for the future of humanity.

The post office for the neighborhood had previously been at Cofachique, and Aaron Case was Postmaster, but in October 1859, the office was removed to Iola, Case still being Postmaster, though James Faulkner attended to it, as his deputy, until he was appointed to the office a short time after.

The Faulkner homestead served as a garrison for South Acton Militia during the Revolutionary War.

The town was named for William Clark Falkner, the great-grandfather of author William Faulkner.

The Faulkner Act allows municipalities to adopt a Small Municipality form of government only for municipalities with a population of under 12, 000.

The Faulkner Act allows municipalities to adopt a Small Municipality form of government only for municipalities with a population of under 12, 000.

In 1958, Chester Township changed its form of government from the Township form to a Faulkner Act form, Small Municipality, Plan C. Its structure includes four Councilmembers and a Mayor, all elected at large for three-year terms on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year.

Mount Olive Township is governed under the Optional Municipal Charter Law's ( Faulkner Act ) Mayor-Council Form of government, a " Strong Mayor " Form of government, providing for a separately elected mayor and council, who serve for four-year terms of office.

The Borough of North Plainfield is governed under the Faulkner Act ( Mayor-Council ) system of municipal government, which provides for a strong-mayor type of government.

Newton operates under the Faulkner Act ( Council-Manager ) form of municipal government with a five-member Town Council, whose members are chosen in nonpartisan elections to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election in even years.

The Faulkner Act allows municipalities to adopt a Small Municipality form of government only for municipalities with a population of under 12, 000.

William Faulkner wrote over one hundred short stories.

But the book is probably best remembered for one of the first commentaries on Faulkner, and a famous essay on Hemingway.

He is one of only three novelists ( the others being William Faulkner and John Updike ) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

Among its most respected practitioners was Flannery O ' Connor ( b. March 25, 1925 in Georgia – d. August 3, 1964 in Georgia ), who renewed the fascination of such giants as Faulkner and Twain with the American south, developing a distinctive Southern gothic esthetic wherein characters acted at one level as people and at another as symbols.

Faulkner, however, stated that although none of the narrators got the facts right, since " no one individual can look at truth ," there is a truth and the reader can ultimately know it.

Not only do chronological events mesh together regularly, but often ( especially at the end ) Faulkner completely disregards any semblance of grammar, spelling, or punctuation, instead writing in a rambling series of words, phrases, and sentences that have no separation to indicate where one thought ends and another begins.

He had also been one of a four-member Cabinet sub-committee set up to decide on government policy to Northern Ireland together with Haughey, Pádraig Faulkner and Joseph Brennan.

Colonel Faulkner served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and was at one point placed in command of the Arsenal at Little Rock, Arkansas.

When authorities visited the address, they learned that no one named Faulkner had lived there – or anywhere nearby – for many years.

Throughout the novel, Faulkner presents fifteen different points of view, each chapter narrated by one character, including Addie, who, after dying, expresses her thoughts from the coffin.

Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, and called Blood Meridian " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ".

Bands such as The Victims and Cheap Nasties, spawned icons of the Australian music scene such as Dave Faulkner and James Baker, who formed one of the most popular Australian bands of the 1980s, the power-pop band Hoodoo Gurus, and the legendary Kim Salmon, who formed the Scientists, an influence on bands such as Mudhoney and The Jesus Lizard.

Colour Sergeant Brian Faulkner, seeing that more than 20 wounded Paras on the western slopes of the mountain were about to fall into the hands of one of the sections of Castañeda's platoon, deployed anyone fit enough to defend the British Regimental Aid Post.

They have built strong reputations as songwriters in London and have written music chart songs for artists such as Hurts, Morten Harket of A-ha, X Factor winner Matt Cardle, Newton Faulkner and number one selling American singer Lana Del Rey.

If Prokosch, like Faulkner, had limited his creative energies to one milieu, one region, he would certainly be counted today among the pillars of American literature .” Among the most noteworthy of Prokosch ’ s latter-day writings are A Tale for Midnight ( 1955 ), a Gothicized retelling of the Cenci story ; The Missolonghi Manuscript ( 1968 ), a “ mediation ” on the romantic artist ; and America, My Wilderness ( 1972 ), an excursion into magical realism.

While there, he meets one of his writing idols, a celebrated novelist from the past who has become a drunken hack screenwriter ( a character based on William Faulkner ).

Some administrators, such as former University of Texas at Austin President Larry Faulkner, have advocated capping the number of top ten percent students for any year at one half of the incoming class.

Faulkner chaired the ALP's National Conference in 2007, and each of the rotating Presidents will chair the National Executive for one year.

Ralph Faulkner, who played a watchman, acted as stunt coordinator and coached the actors on swordplay, and about 900 extras were used for the battle scenes, one of which was cut by the director after the film had opened.

Faulkner previously won this award for his book A Fable, making him one of only three authors to be awarded it more than once.

Faulkner was believed to have over 300 putters, always searching for the perfect one.