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William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner), (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962) was an American author. He is regared as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Trivia about faulkner

  • "Sartoris" published in 1929 was his first novel to deal with Yoknapatawpha County
  • Sherwood Anderson was the model for Dawson Fairchild in "Mosquitoes", a 1927 novel by this Mississippi author
  • "Absalom, Absalom!"
  • American novelist & short story writer who created Yoknapatawpha County
  • He wrote "The Unvanquished" & "The Sound and the Fury"
  • The second part of his "The Sound and the Fury" is told by a neurotic on the day of his suicide
  • "Requiem for a Nun" was his sequel to "Sanctuary"
  • The Snopes family appeared in 6 of his novels, including "The Hamlet", "The Town" & "The Mansion"
  • "Light in August"
  • Perhaps you'll draft your Nobel Prize acceptance speech at NYC's Algonquin Hotel, as this Mississippi man did in 1950
  • His "Light in August" tells the story of Joe Christmas, who deals with his demons in Mississippi
  • Oh, "The Sound and the Fury" when 6 of this novelist's letters were stolen in 2002 (they were later found)
  • He was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, but soon moved with his parents to Oxford, Mississippi
  • This southerner won 2 of the first 6 awards, for "Collected Stories" & "A Fable"
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Rowan Oak) The university owns & maintains Rowan Oak, home of this Nobel Prize-winning author including the typewriter on which he wrote several novels
  • A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his "As I Lay Dying"