On this day in 1932 William Faulkner reluctantly arrived in Hollywood to begin work as a screenwriter, a labor that would last, on and off, for twenty years. Faulkner was thirty-four years old at the time, and had already published four of his Yoknapatawpha County novels (including The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying). Though far from a popular success, he was regarded by his peers as one of America's most talented young writers. He had lived most of his life in Oxford, Mississippi, had recently married and recently bought Rowan Oak, his faded antebellum mansion. He was not a social man, nor a team worker ... FULL STORY »
