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William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and 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).[1][2][3][4]
His novel "Absalom, Absalom!" is widely considered to be the greatest southern novel ever written.
He married his teenaged sweetheart after she, under pressure from her family, married and divorced another man.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
- ↑ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html
- ↑ http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1949a.html
- ↑ http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm
- ↑ https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html