Like so: Temple Drake, wringing her hands, her voice on the edge of hysteria: So what is the point of Requiem? It appears to be a continuation of Temple Drake's story from Sanctuary, in play form. It is a curious book in that at least half of it is an absorbing faux-history lesson - one that doesn't have a whole lot to do with what the book is supposedly about. Faulkner is all about the history and context of a person, and in Requiem for a Nun, of a place. Both his mother and grandmother were avid readers and also painters and photographers, educating him in visual language, and thank you Wikipedia for all of this personal history that doesn't have a whole lot to do with this review. His family, particularly his mother Maud, his maternal grandmother Lelia Butler, and Caroline 'Callie' Barr (the black woman who raised him from infancy) crucially influenced the development of Faulkner's artistic imagination. On September 21, 1902, the Falkner family settled in Oxford, where he lived on and off for the rest of his life.

Soon after his first birthday, his family moved to Ripley, Mississippi.

He had three younger brothers: Murry Charles 'Jack' Falkner, author John Faulkner, and Dean Swift Faulkner. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.

Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner