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4 days ago · 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.
- Later Life and Works
William Faulkner - Nobel Prize, Southern Gothic, Novels: The...
- John Cheever
John Cheever (born May 27, 1912, Quincy, Massachusetts,...
- Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck was an American author noted for her novels of...
- Philip Roth
Philip Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey,...
- Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (born September 13, 1876, Camden, Ohio,...
- The Town
Table of Contents The Town, novel by William Faulkner,...
- Pylon
Other articles where Pylon is discussed: William Faulkner:...
- Sanctuary
Sanctuary, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1931. The...
- Later Life and Works
5 days ago · William Faulkner (1897–1962) is widely considered the most important and influential writer from the US South. Although his novels often depict a provincial region of the Deep South (the fictional Yoknapatawpha County), Faulkner is much more than just a Southern writer.
5 days ago · William Faulkner played a significant role in the post-war emotional revolution, in which literacy changed the scope of society. Faulkner did what no one else could do, alter the mindset of aspiring writers and scare them away from fear, and instead encourage hope in a war-torn country.
17 hours ago · Three influential Japanese postwar novelists have a specific American writer as his inspirational source: Mark Twain for Kenzaburo Oe (b. 1935–), William Faulkner for Kenji Nakagami (1946–1992), and Raymond Carver for Haruki Murakami (b. 1949–). Their relationships with their literary precursors vary relative to their own sensitivities ...
4 days ago · In 1974, a group of William Faulkner enthusiasts decided that the perfect place for a conference celebrating the work of the lauded author was his hometown. Fifty years later, the Oxford-based event is bigger and broader than ever. The 2024 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference is set for July 21-25 at the University of Mississippi.
2 days ago · Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University. Greg Barnhisel is Professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, and the author of James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound (2005), Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (2015), and Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of ...
3 days ago · William Faulkner–August 12, 1954. For years, Emerging Civil War would commemorate July 3rd by reposting William Faulkner‘s famous sentence about Pickett’s Charge from Intruder in the Dust.
