William Faulkner has resided in the Top Five lists of American authors read around the world since 1958. His writing helps to define America and, in particular, the South.  His writing has influenced French university professors as well as Cambodian dictators. With the ability to write myths, poetry, Hollywood movie mysteries, news articles, and Nobel Prize-winning literature, Faulkner addressed every human emotion and characteristic since Homer, concerning himself with people baffled and stunted by their lack of community, the modern machine age of post-Reconstruction, all from his little Delta town in Mississippi. Self-taught, having repeated 11^th grade so many times, he was finally asked to leave, Faulkner grew into a writer who ended up, according to contemporary Flannery O’Connor, ‘making us see our neighbor, no matter how ugly he is.’ How was he educated? Why was he so interested in the classical tradition? How did he form his craft? What are we, as Christians, to learn from a Faulkner novel?