William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel. The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.Faulkner's reputation grew following publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner, and he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel." He is the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6, 1962, following a fall from his horse the month before. Ralph Ellison called him "the greatest artist the South has produced".
As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

A Rose for Emily and Other Stories

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

Light in August

Light in August

William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

Barn Burning (Tale Blazers)

Barn Burning (Tale Blazers)

William Faulkner

Soldiers' Pay

Soldiers' Pay

William Faulkner

Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes

William Faulkner

Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion

William Faulkner

Assalonne, Assalonne!

Assalonne, Assalonne!

William Faulkner

Mentre morivo

Mentre morivo

William Faulkner

Luz de agosto

Luz de agosto

William Faulkner

Sanctuary

Sanctuary

William Faulkner

Mientras agonizo

Mientras agonizo

William Faulkner

The Wishing Tree

The Wishing Tree

William Faulkner

Zgomotul şi furia

Zgomotul şi furia

William Faulkner

الصخب والعنف

الصخب والعنف

William Faulkner

A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August

A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August

William Faulkner

The Bear

The Bear

William Faulkner