The Mississippian, the student paper, published "Landing in Luck." The short story, nine pages in length were created directly from his direct experience in the Royal Air Force flight training in 1916. After awhile he began to get tired of school once again. He started cutting classes and finally stopped going. .
Within a few months, his restlessness had taken him back to Oxford and the most improbable job he would ever hold"(Minter 42). appointed to the job of postmaster at the university post office. Even as postmaster, Faulkner still found time to write. .
In September of 1927, Faulkner finished yet another novel entitled Flags in the Dust. Once this novel was sent to the publisher, it was cut down to 110,000 words and the title was replaced as Sartoris. Within the same month, Faulkner began The Sound and The Fury, which would later become his greatest novel (Minter 72). He completed the final edition of the novel while in New York in October 1928 (Millgate 26). .
In the summer of 1929 Faulkner was married. Estelle Oldham Franklin had divorced her husband and returned to Oxford with the two children of the marriage, Malcolm and Victoria (known as Cho Cho) . Faulkner got a job working at the university power plant. "In October 1930, about four months after Faulkner and his wife had moved into Rowan Oak, As I Lay Dying was published"(Millgate 29). None of his novels where bringing in very much income, and he had a new family to think about. He had to write something that would bring some income. .
Sanctuary, his sixth novel, was published in 1931. This novel brought him "financial success"(Volpe 11). "Faulkner's first major purchase was an old mansion, one of the finest in Oxford"(Volpe 11). Faulkner settled down in Oxford, while he raised his family. He would only go to Hollywood and work on different scripts whenever he was in need of some money. The Faulkner's lost their first child soon after its birth; their second child, also a girl, they named Jill"(Volpe 12).
