William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer best known for novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for the Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel, he is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and often the greatest writer of Southern literature, with novels including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) and Absalom, Absalom!. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Ralph Ellison called him the greatest artist the South has produced. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardChevalier des Arts et des Lettres. 1 AwardNational Book Award, 1951. 1 AwardNobel Prize in Literature, 1949. 1 AwardPulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1955. 1 AwardWilliam Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1950. 1 Classification
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Source As I Lay Dying (Wikipedia)
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September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer best known for novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for the Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
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William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; 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.
Award: Nobel Prize in Literature
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; 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.
Award: National Book Award
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; 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.
Award: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; 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.
Award: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; 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.
Award: O. Henry Award
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; 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.
Award: William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; 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.
View the Source The Sound and the Fury (Wikipedia)
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The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1929.
As I Lay Dying (Wikipedia)
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As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner.
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