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[[File:William Faulkner.jpg|thumb|Photo, Author Carl van Vechten (1880–1964).]]
[[File:William Faulkner.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Faulkner by Carl Van Vechten]]
'''William Faulkner''' (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer prize]] winning American [[author]]. He was a lifelong resident [[Mississippi]], and its only Nobel laureate, winning the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1949. He is most famous for writing ''The Sound and the Fury'' (published in 1929), ''As I Lay Dying'' (1930) and ''Absalom, Absalom!'' (1936).<ref>http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html</ref><ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html</ref><ref>http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1949a.html</ref><ref>http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm</ref>
'''William Faulkner''' (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer prize]] winning American [[author]]. He was a lifelong resident of [[Mississippi]], and its only Nobel laureate, winning the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1949. He is most famous for writing ''The Sound and the Fury'' (1929), ''As I Lay Dying'' (1930) and ''Absalom, Absalom!'' (1936).<ref>http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html</ref><ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html</ref><ref>http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1949a.html</ref><ref>http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm</ref>
''Absalom, Absalom!'' is widely considered the greatest southern novel ever written.
He married his teenaged sweetheart after she, under pressure from her family, married and divorced another man.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref>
He married his teenaged sweetheart after she, under pressure from her family, married and divorced another man.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref>