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William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈfɔːknər /; [1][2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) 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.
Sep 21, 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 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 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.
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.
Dec 22, 2021 · William Faulkner was a Mississippi-born novelist, poet, and screenwriter, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in literature, and twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1955, 1963).
Mar 31, 2016 · William Cuthbert Faulkner (b. 1897–d. 1962) grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, where his great-grandfather William Clark Falkner (sic), a writer, Confederate colonel, and railroad founder, was a local legend.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel" William Faulkner received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1950.
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.
