stackyFACTSBefore he won the Nobel Prize, William Faulkner was just a guy trying to stay awake at a blue-collar job.
Before he won the Nobel Prize, William Faulkner was just a guy trying to stay awake at a blue-collar job. In the late 1920s, he worked the graveyard shift at a university power plant, shoveling coal into the massive boilers. In between bouts of dirty manual labor, he used the quiet hours to write 'As I Lay Dying' on an overturned wheelbarrow. He completely birthed a titan of Southern Gothic literature while actively preventing a boiler explosion.
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