In the mid 1940's, Faulkner signed a contract with Warner Brothers in which he wrote screenplays for movies. He wan't given credit for his work and only did it because he was running out of money.
This shows a scene of one of his most successful films that he wrote called The Southerner.
William Faulkner had his own set of strong views and beliefs. He was considered a moderate and was very active in the debate over school integration. At a conference in Rome, he heard about a black teenager who was killed for trivial reasons back in his home state of Mississippi. He wrote a dispatch saying how he was opposed to this kind of behavior and condemned the murder.
Faulkner was a world renown writer and was even considered "a God" to the young people in France, but his good publicity around the world didn't affect Americans. They ceased to read his work. The Portable Faulkner was the reason Faulkner's work had a resurgence of popularity in America.
Due to his great accomplishments as a writer and as an intellectual, Faulkner was prized with the Nobel Piece Prize for literature. Although his speech at the ceremony was not easily understood because he was said to be drunk, later when his speech was recorded, his speech was considered phenomenal. His speech reveals his selfless intentions he has for his writing and artistic talents.
It seems to me that most great writers are selfless in their writing intentions and that they use their talents to express who they are, what they have been through, and their strong opinions on the world.
