Editing William Faulkner (section)

===''The Sound and the Fury''===
[[File:The Sound and the Fury (1929 1st ed dust jacket).jpg|thumb|upright|''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' (1929)]]
In autumn 1928, just after his 31st birthday, Faulkner began working on ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]''. He started by writing three short stories about a group of children with the last name Compson, but soon began to feel that the characters he had created might be better suited for a full-length novel. Perhaps as a result of disappointment in the initial rejection of ''Flags in the Dust'', Faulkner had now become indifferent to his publishers and wrote this novel in a much more experimental style. In describing the writing process for this work, Faulkner later said, "One day I seemed to shut the door between me and all publisher's addresses and book lists. I said to myself, 'Now I can write.'"<ref>Porter, Carolyn. [https://books.google.com/books?id=awt9X0cAC40C ''William Faulkner''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202104652/https://books.google.com/books?id=awt9X0cAC40C&printsec=frontcover |date=December 2, 2020 }}, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007; {{ISBN|0-19-531049-7}}, p. 37</ref> After its completion, Faulkner insisted that Wasson not do any editing or add any punctuation for clarity.<ref name="Porter, Carolyn 2007"/>