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William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.
William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a stand-in for his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi .
Jul 2, 2024 · William Faulkner (born September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi) was an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Apr 2, 2014 · William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning novelist who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. He is best known for such novels as 'The Sound and the Fury'...
William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
Jul 2, 2024 · William Faulkner. Novelist William Faulkner, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, c. 1954. The Nobel Prize had a major impact on Faulkner’s private life.
Mr. Faulkner’s self portrait, 1956. William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, where his father was then working as a conductor on the railroad built by the novelist’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (without the “u”), author of The...
William Faulkner. One of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, William Cuthbert Falkner, as his name was originally spelled, never graduated from high school. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons, and moved with his family to Oxford, Mississippi, at the age of five.
Jul 2, 2019 · William Faulkner. 1897–1962. William Faulkner in Hollywood, CA, early 1940s. (Alfred Eriss/Pix Inc./. The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Major works: The Sound and the Fury • As I Lay Dying • Light in August • Absalom, Absalom! • If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem ( The Wild Palms) • “A Rose for Emily” • “The Bear ...
