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William Faulkner

William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the FuryAs I Lay DyingLight in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
Knight's Gambit
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
The Portable Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury
Intruder in the Dust
Go Down, Moses
As I Lay Dying

Books

The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
Knight's Gambit
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
The Portable Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury
Intruder in the Dust
Go Down, Moses
As I Lay Dying

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