The document provides biographical information about William Faulkner, the American writer. It discusses how he dropped out of university, lost his fiancée, and felt a need to compensate through affecting a fake accent and falsifying letters to obtain pilot's wings. It also outlines some of the jobs he held throughout his life to make ends meet, as well as his entertainment of shooting passersby with a BB gun from his window. The document then discusses some of Faulkner's novels and how they were adapted into films through his work with director Howard Hawks. It provides short summaries of several films they collaborated on.