William Faulkner

1897 – 1962

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer whose body of work set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County of north Mississippi is widely regarded as the central achievement of Southern literature. His modernist novels The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936) used multiple narrators, fractured chronology, and stream-of-consciousness to render the South's haunted relationship with race, family, and history. He received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes for fiction.

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