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William Faulkner 1897—1962

William Faulkner

Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.

Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, He was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. (source: Wikipedia)

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As I Lay Dying (1930)

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people... read more »

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Sanctuary (1391)

Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuary is a powerful novel examining the nature of true evil, through the prisms of mythology, local... read more »

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Soldiers' Pay (1926)

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost... read more »

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The Sound and the Fury (1929)

The tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy... read more »