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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.
May 23, 2024 · William Faulkner, American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature and is best known for his works set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County. His notable novels include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and Light in August.
Apr 2, 2014 · William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning novelist who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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.
Biographical. William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper.
William Faulkner. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949. Born: 25 September 1897, New Albany, MS, USA. Died: 6 July 1962, Byhalia, MS, USA. Residence at the time of the award: USA. Prize motivation: “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel” Language: English.
William Faulkner, orig. William Cuthbert Falkner, (born Sept. 25, 1897, New Albany, Miss., U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Miss.), U.S. writer. Faulkner dropped out of high school and only briefly attended college. He spent most of his life in Oxford, Miss.
May 23, 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.
Jun 28, 2012 · A poll of well over a hundred writers and critics, taken a few years back by Oxford American magazine, named William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” the “greatest Southern novel ever written,” by...
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.
