hot-shooting men's basketball will enter 2008 as the only unbeaten team in the Southern States Athletic Conference. The sizzling Flames burned visiting Faulkner University, 88-65 on Saturday afternoon in Walker Arena.
The victory moves coach Tommy Brown's team to 9-0 overall and a perfect 3-0 in SSAC play. It also completes a home-court sweep of Auburn Montgomery and Faulkner, two teams expected to battle Lee for top conference honors. Faulkner drops to 3-1 in the SSAC and 4-7 overall.
The Flames popped out of the starting gate like a favored horse at the Kentucky Derby. The margin reached 15-2 in the first three minutes and by halftime Lee was in complete, leading 48-32 and shooting a remarkable 60 percent from behind the arc and 53 percent from the field.
The second half spelled more bad news for the Eagles of coach Jim Sanderson. The Flames made 7-of-14 treys in the second 20 minutes and finished the game at the 54 percent mark. "Anytime we can make 13-of-24 three pointers in a game, we are going to be pretty good," said Brown. "We did a good job of spreading the floor against their pressure defense."
Again it was balanced scoring that paced the Flames on the offensive end. Five Lee players scored in double figures as the margin grew to 30 points at different times in the second half. Freddie Williams and Elmar Kuli-Zade sparked the attack with 18 points apiece. Both Williams and Kuli-Zade posted impressive numbers. Kuli-Zade was 3-of-5 from 3-points range, 5-of-8 from the field and 5-of-7 from the line. The junior also had six assists and two steals. Williams was 8-of-11 from the field and 2-of-3 from behind the arc.
"Elmar does a great job at point guard," noted Brown. "He gets his teammates into the right spots on the floor and then delivers the ball to them. Freddie is the type of player who plays his best games against the more athletic teams. He proved that against AUM and Faulkner."
Junior Joe Fulp turned in by far his best offensive effort of the season. The Lee post player was 6-of-8 from the field, including a 3-pointer and finished with 16 points, two assists and two steals. "He came to me before practice on Friday and told me he was ready to go," said Brown. "He missed a lot of work in early practices and it has taken him a while to get into playing condition."
Senior Kellen Pickel turned in another solid effort. He was 3-of-5 from outside the arc and totaled 13 points and grabbed five rebounds. Brad Harris made two three pointers and collected nine points to go with two assists, while Paco Diaw played only nine minutes because of foul problems, but managed seven rebounds and two steals.
Faulkner got a lift from Durrell Richardson. He came off the bench to post a double-double, 14 points and 12 rebounds. Bryant Murray was the only other Eagle in double figures. He totaled 10 markers and added three assists. Faulkner shot 38 percent from the field (24-of-64). The Eagles were only 6-of-19 from three-point range and converted 11-of-16 free throws.
The Flames will leave for Hawaii next Thursday and play a pair of exhibition contests against Hawaii Hilo and ChaminadeThe UK's most successful new singer-songwriter, Newton Faulkner, releases his brand new single 'Teardrop' on December 10th through Ugly Truth Records. A classic winter-warmer, 'Teardrop' is a starkly beautiful, and utterly unique, take on the Massive Attack song and shows both Newton's magnificent voice and guitar versatility at their mesmerizing best.
The release of 'Teardrop' follows the spectacular success of Newton's Number One & Platinum debut album, 'Hand Built By Robots', which has so far spent two weeks at Number One on the UK album chart, as well as being a permanent fixture in the iTunes Top Ten since release (including five weeks at No1).
'Teardrop' comes hot on the heels of Newton's last two singles, 'Dream Catch Me' and 'All I Got' which is currently riding high inside the UK Airplay Chart Top Ten.
A true DIY phenomenon (Myspace plays now well over 1 million) Newton has become a genuine grass roots success story as his sell-out EP's, headline dates and support slots have gathered new fans and rave reviews alikeWilliam Faulkner
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner photographed in 1954 by Carl Van Vechten
Born September 25, 1897(1897-09-25)
New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.
Died July 6, 1962 (aged 64)
Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation Novelist, short story writer
Genres Southern Gothic
Literary movement Modernism, stream of consciousness
Influences James Joyce, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot
Influenced Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Flannery O'Conner, Cormac McCarthy, Harper Lee, Peter Carey, Steve Erickson, Louise Erdrich, Hunter S. Thompson
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist, film screenwriter, and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Faulkner was known for an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence, in contrast to the minimalist understatement of his peer Ernest Hemingway. Although Faulkner is sometimes lauded as the inventor of the "stream of consciousness" technique in fiction, this is misleading. Other writers such as Henry James, James Joyce and Edouard Dujardin had used this technique before him.
Along with Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, and Truman Capote, Faulkner is considered one of the most important "Southern writers." While his work was published regularly from the mid 1920s to the late 1940s, he was relatively unknown before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Critics and the public now favor his work, [1] and he is widely seen as among the greatest American writers of all time.
Contents
1 Life
2 Works
3 Awards
4 Personal
5 Later years
6 Bibliography
6.1 Novels
6.2 Short stories
6.3 Poetry
7 Discography
8 Listen to
9 References
10 See also
11 External links
[edit] Life
Faulkner was born William Falkner [2] in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in and heavily influenced by that state, as well as by the history and culture of the South as a whole. He moved with his family at the age of four to the nearby town of Oxford, where he lived on and off for the rest of his life. Oxford is the model for the town of "Jefferson" in his fiction, and Lafayette County, Mississippi which contains the town of Oxford, is the model for his fictional "Yoknapatawpha County." Faulkner's roots in North Mississippi ran deep. His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in northern Mississippi who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, founded a railroad, and gave his name to the town of Falkner in nearby Tippah County. Perhaps most importantly, he wrote several novels and other works, establishing a literary tradition in the family. More relevantly, Colonel Falkner served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris in his great-grandson's writing.
It is understandable that the older Falkner was influenced by the history of his family and the region in which they lived. Mississippi marked his sense of humor, his sense of the tragic position of blacks and whites, his keen characterization of usual Southern characters and his timeless themes, one of them being that fiercely intelligent people dwelled behind the façades of good old boys and simpletons. After being snubbed by the United States Army because of his height, Faulkner first joined the Canadian and then the Royal Air Force, yet did not see any World War I wartime action. The definitive reason for Faulkner's change in the spelling of his last name is still unknown. Some possibilities include adding an "u" to appear more British when entering the Royal Air Force, or so that his name would come across as more aristocratic. He may have also simply kept a misspelling that an early editor had made.
Although Faulkner is heavily identified with Mississippi, he was living in New Orleans in 1925 when he wrote his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, after being influenced by Sherwood Anderson into trying fiction. The small house at 624 Pirate's Alley, just around the corner from St. Louis Cathedral, is now the premises of Faulkner House Books, and also serves as the headquarters of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society.
Faulkner married Estelle Oldham (19 February 1896 to 11 May 1972) in June 1929 at College Hill Presbyterian Church just outside of Oxford, Mississippi. They honeymooned on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, at Pascagoula, then returned to Oxford, first living with relatives while they searched for a home of their own to purchase. In 1930 Faulkner purchased the antebellum home Rowan Oak, known at that time as "The Bailey Place" where he and his family lived until his daughter Jill, after her mother's death, sold the property to The University of Mississippi in 1972. The house and furnishings are maintained much as they were in Faulkner's time. Still, today, one can find Faulkner's scribblings on the wall here, notably, the day-by-day outline covering an entire week that he wrote out on the walls of his small study to help him keep track of the plot twists in the dense novel A Fable.
On writing, Faulkner remarked, "Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him", in an interview with The Paris Review in 1956. Another esteemed Southern writer, Flannery O'Connor, stated that, "The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down."
-- Flannery O'Connor, "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"
[edit] Works
Faulkner's most celebrated novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and The Unvanquished (1938). Faulkner was also a prolific writer of short stories: His first short story collection, These 13 (1932), includes many of his most acclaimed (and most frequently anthologized) stories, including "A Rose for Emily," "Red Leaves", "That Evening Sun," and "Dry September." Faulkner set many of his short stories and novels in Yoknapatawpha County — based on, and nearly geographically identical to, Lafayette County, of which his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi is the county seat.
Additional works include Sanctuary (1931), a sensationalist "pulp fiction"-styled novel, characterized by André Malraux as "the intrusion of Greek tragedy into the detective story." Its themes of evil and corruption, bearing Southern Gothic tones, resonate to this day. Requiem for a Nun (1951), a play/novel sequel to Sanctuary, is the only play that Faulkner published, except for his The Marionettes, which he essentially self-published as a young man. Faulkner also wrote two volumes of poetry which were published in small printings, The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933), and a collection of crime-fiction short stories, Knight's Gambit.
[edit] Awards
Faulkner's literary accolades are numerous. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel". Although Faulkner won two Pulitzer Prizes, they were not awarded for his most famous novels, but were both given to what are considered as Faulkner's "minor" novels. First was his 1954 novel A Fable, which took the Pulitzer in 1955, and then his 1962 novel, The Reivers, which was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer in 1963. He also won two National Book Awards, first for his Collected Stories in 1951 and once again for his novel A Fable in 1955.
In 1946, Faulkner was one of three finalists for the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award. He came in second to Manly Wade Wellman.[1]
[edit] Personal
Much has been made of the fact that Faulkner had a serious drinking problem throughout his life. He was not alone in this area; a list of contemporaneous American writers who struggled with alcohol would stretch to several pages. But as Faulkner himself stated on several occasions, and as was witnessed by members of his family, the press, and friends at various periods over the course of his career, he did not drink while writing, nor did he believe that alcohol helped to fuel the creative process. It is now widely believed that Faulkner used alcohol as an "escape valve" from the day-to-day pressures of his regular life, including his never-ending and maddening financial straits, rather than the more romantic vision of a brilliant writer who needed alcohol to pursue his craft. From 1949 to 1953, he conducted an affair with a young writer who considered him her mentor. The relationship with Joan Williams (1928-2004) became the subject of her third novel, called The Wintering (1971). Williams' son, Matt Bowen, wrote a dramatic adaptation of his mother's novel in 2005.[3]
[edit] Later years
William Faulkner's Underwood Universal Portable typewriter in his office at Rowan Oak, which is now maintained by the University of Mississippi in Oxford as a museum.In the 1930s Faulkner moved to Hollywood to be a screenwriter (producing scripts for Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, both directed by Howard Hawks). Faulkner became good friends with director Howard Hawks, as well as screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides. Faulkner also befriended actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Also at that time, Faulkner started an affair with Hawks's secretary and script girl Meta Carpenter. In Hollywood, Faulkner was rather famous for drinking as well, and throughout his life was known to be an alcoholic. Faulkner's Hollywood experience is treated in fictionalized fashion in the Joel and Ethan Coen 1991 film Barton Fink. That film's supporting character, W.P. Mayhew, is intended as a composite of Faulkner and his Lost Generation peer, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
An apocryphal story regarding Faulkner during his Hollywood years found him with a case of writer's block at the studio. He told Hawks he was having a hard time concentrating and would like to write at home. Hawks was agreeable, and Faulkner left. Several days passed, with no word from the writer. Hawks telephoned Faulkner's hotel and found that Faulkner had checked out several days earlier. It seems Faulkner had been quite literal and had returned home to Mississippi to finish the screenplay.
Faulkner donated a portion of his Nobel winnings "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers", eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He donated another portion to a local Oxford bank to establish an account to provide scholarship funds to help educate African-American education majors at nearby Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Faulkner served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia from 1957 until his death at Wright's Sanitorium
