He was born in 1897 in New Albany along the Mississippi river and then in 1902 moved with his family to Oxford County, which can be taken as his second hometown.

• 他于1897年出生在密西西比河畔的新奥尔巴尼(New Albany)，后于1902年全家搬迁至拉法耶迪县的县城奥克斯福镇(Oxford)。 奥克斯福镇可以称得上是福克纳的第二个故乡。